COOPERATIVE Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC in Gauteng Lebogang Maile has welcomed the report by the Gauteng municipalities committee.
The report was released on Tuesday morning.
Maile established the committee in 2019 when the auditor-general revealed that 9 out of 11 municipalities in the province were at risk of being dysfunctional.
Maile said the committee identified 12 critical issues which need to be addressed.
“The committee believes that we need to have dedicated vision for each region, because each region is unique, each region has its own challenges, so we must not use the one-size-fits-all approach.
“We will be doing that, and we have already started thinking about it, through our human settlement plans.
“What we are doing, we are building what we call mega human settlement but that is not enough, there are other elements like economic activities,” said the MEC.
South African Local Government Association (Salga) president Thembi Nkadimeng said the issues highlighted in the report represents the state of municipalities across the country and is not unique to Gauteng.
- Agencies