By Nkhensani Chauke
The North West Provincial Legislature’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), chaired by Smuts Matshe, has instructed MEC for Cooperative Governance, Gaoage Molapisi, to urgently restore the rule of law at Kagisano-Molopo Local Municipality.
This follows SCOPA’s public hearings on the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) last Friday, where the municipality was questioned about R1.1 billion in irregular expenditure during the 2023/24 financial year.
The municipality has been without a permanent mayor since early 2025 following the resignation of former mayor Tshireletso Marabutse.
Before that, he had been on leave from December 2024 to March 2025, with an acting mayor appointed during his absence.
However, after his resignation, the council ended the acting arrangements, leaving the municipality without mayoral leadership.
Matshe criticised the situation as unacceptable, saying it was absurd that the provincial government placed Kagisano-Molopo under Section 139(1)(a), yet COGTA has allowed it to operate illegally
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