Cover, Publication Guidelines, Contents page Special Issue on South African Local Government Introduction: The place of participation in South African local democracy Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, i-vii  Articles Are practices of local participation sidelining the institutional participatory channels?: Reflections from Johannesburg Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, 1-33  ‘They know me, I will not get any job’: public participation, patronage, and the sedation […]