CoGTA Committee Says Mogalakwena Municipality ‘Apathetic’ About ‘Serious’ Governance Challenges

Riyaz Patel

Parliament’s Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) says the Mogalakwena Local Municipality appears to be unfazed by the current and “serious” governance challenges within the municipality.

This attitude, the Committee said, has a “great potential of rendering the municipality in a perpetual crisis.”

This emerged after the committee met with the five municipalities with the highest irregular expenditure in the 2017/2018 financial year.

The committee’s concerns arise from the “seeming indifference” to the issues raised by the Auditor General in the municipal audit.

Further cause for concern is the the fact that the Municipal Public Accounts Committee is dysfunctional, the Committee said.

“Generally it cannot be business as usual when the municipality has incurred more than R1.7 billion in irregular and wasteful expenditure.

“As a result, the committee took a resolution to have a