By Akani Nkuna
OR Tambo District Municipality municipal manager Basil Mase told Parliament on Tuesday that the municipality has made substantial progress towards stability and reducing irregular and wasteful expenditure that had become synonymous with the district in recent years, following intensified revenue and debt collection efforts.
The OR Tambo District Municipality and Buffalo City Metro Municipality appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) to discuss their latest audit outcomes and investigations by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
Mase told SCOPA that the district’s executive mayor implemented a National Treasury-sanctioned Recovery Plan, which helped reduce the municipality’s debt from R442 million in 2022, when the current administration assumed office, to R32 million.
He said the remaining amount would be paid off by June this year.
This, he added, comes while the municipality currently holds more than R1
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