North West Premier Job Mokgoro has announced that the province’s executive council had dissolved the entire council of the Mamusa Municipality in Schweizer-Reineke.
Without a council to perform its legislative duties, it is now up to the IEC to decide on a date when an election for a new council will be held in Mamusa.
Fifteen out of 22 municipalities in the North West have now been placed under administration as a result of mismanagement of funds, maladministration and councillors neglecting their legislative duties.
Mokgoro said the EXCO had previously resolved to invoke section 139(1)(c) at the municipality – which has already been under administration following a section 139(1)(b) intervention – as there were no signs of improvement.
Mokgoro’s spokesperson, Vuyisile Ngesi, said in a statement Thursday that the municipality was rife with maladministration, financial mismanagement
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