Stability, good governance and service provision must be restored in Ditsobotla Local Municipality – MEC Maloyi
North West MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs, Nono Maloyi has made an appeal to the intervention team deployed to Ditsobotla local municipality to do everything in their power to restore stability and good governance as a matter of urgency, to ensure the provision of services to local residents.
MEC Maloyi made the plea after receiving the progress report on the implementation of the Ditsobotla Financial Recovery Plan which is aimed at resuscitating governance structures, ensuring stability and proper finance management as well as restoring the delivery of services.
MEC Maloyi who was accompanied by Head of the Department, Dr Ben Bole and MEC for Provincial Treasury, Motlalepula Rosho said the team must succeed in stabilising the municipality and get it back on track.
“If we can work as a collective, we will be able to succeed. Ditsobotla is one of the richest municipalities in the province and we must get it right even though there are those who want to collapse it. We can only achieve proper provision of services if the municipality is stable in order for consumers to start paying for services. We must achieve that through this intervention team”, remarked MEC Maloyi.
Ditsobotla local municipality is currently placed under Section 139(5) of the Constitution read with Section 139 of the Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003, which gives the provincial government a mandatory intervention in the municipality.
The mandatory intervention was warranted due to the continuous breach of financial management in the municipality. The Provincial Executive, through the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Provincial Treasury appointed the Provincial Executive Representatives whose main mandate was to see to the implementation of the Financial Recovery Plan.
“The municipality has a number of contract employees; whose contracts continue to be renewed whilst new contracts are entered into without following the dictates of staff regulations. If needs be, we will approach the court to nullify these appointments. We will also be doing the employees headcount to deal with the allegations of ghost employees” said MEC Maloyi.
The Financial Recovery Plan will be implemented through three phases which is rescue, stabilisation and sustainability. These phases are to be implemented in a minimum of three years within the following four pillars: Governance, Institutional, Financial Management and Service Delivery.
Issued by Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
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