ANALYSIS| Citizens Should Brace For Service Delivery Day-Zero

LUCAS LEDWABA

PARLIAMENT recently asked the SA Local Government Association a question that’s probably on the lips of many citizens worried by the recent distressing audit outcomes by Auditor-General advocate Kimi Makwetu.

Why was corruption in municipalities still on the rise when the number of councillors attending training facilitated by SALGA was increasing every year?

This is what a joint sitting of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) as well as the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements wanted to know from SALGA officials who were there to present the organisation’s budget.

SALGA is a Schedule 3A public entity.

Its role is to help ‘transform local government to enable it to fulfil its development mandate.’

This includes capacity-building, supporting, advising, sharing knowledge and information and playing an oversight role among its 257 local government members.

But here’s the