Urgent Action Needed To Save Municipalities From ‘Siege Of Corruption’ – CoGTA Committee Chair

Riyaz Patel

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs says their recent oversight visits to several municipalities in Limpopo was a “cold reminder of the imperfect and messy journey” the committee finds itself in.

Committee chair Faith Muthambi said the multifaceted challenges faced ( by municipalities) can be summed up as being “driven by sheer non-compliance with the prescripts of the regulations and laws, and to some extent, with total impunity.”

“What stands between our current state of the arrested development and a prosperous South Africa that we want to build as it is espoused in the National Development Plan 2030, is the quality of public service to accomplish that objective.”   

The other objective of the committee’s visit to Limpopo’s municipalities was to follow up on the issues that emerged during the committee’s recent joint meeting with the Standing Committee on Public Account (Scopa) on municipalities that received