Parliament’s CoGta Committee Accuses Mogalakwena Municipality Of ‘Sabotaging’ Work Of MPs

Riyaz Patel

Parliament’s portfolio committee on cooperative governance has accused officials at the Mogalakwena Local Municipality in Limpopo of “sabotaging” the work of MPs.

Municipal officials and politicians were meant to arrange meetings with local ward councillors, civic organisations and ratepayers’ associations.

The Mogalakwena Municipality has received negative audit opinions over the past five years, with unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure standing at over R2.8bn.

The committee visited various municipalities in Limpopo this and last week to assess first hand the state of locals entities, with a special emphasis on those involved with VBS Bank.

The committee said very few people were invited to the stakeholder engagement.

“In all municipalities that the stakeholder interactions where scheduled, the meetings went ahead without a glitch. It was only in Mogalakwena that there was clear sabotage of the stakeholder engagement,” said committee chairperson Faith