South Africa’s Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister, Sicelo Shiceka, says political interference, fighting for positions and nepotism are the main factors that are crippling service delivery in most municipalities.

He was addressing a Cosatu-KwaZulu-Natal Public Sector Summit in Richards Bay on the north coast. Shiceka says the spate of service delivery protests nationwide are a strong indication that municipalities are failing to deliver services to the public's expectations.

The minister say in different areas and in different municipalities, there are disagreements and infightings in ANC-led municipalities where you find that municipalities are given sometimes illegal instructions.

He says these instructions are not constitutional and are out of policy because people are pushing a particular view. That does not happen in the ANC alone, it happens in the alliance, it also happen even in the other parties, like in KwaZulu-Natal, within the Inkatha Freedom Party and the Western Cape under the Democratic Alliance that problem is also happening.