WHILE the DA and others have criticised the cadre deployment strategy of the ANC for stripping  municipalities of expertise and allowing the unabated plundering of municipal infrastructure grants and other service delivery related resources, but Premier Sisi Ntombela says this was always not always the case.

Ntombela said serious measures of intervention will be instituted by the provincial government at different municipalities following lack of service delivery and lamented the performance of these municipalities, saying their performance is below the expectations of communities.

The Free State local government sector is constituted by the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality (Bloemfontein, Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu) and four district municipalities.

“Work to repair the state of our municipalities together with the newly elected councillors and SALGA have already started,” said Ntombela. 

“Äll we want is to get the basic right and improve service delivery.”

She said the Municipal Infrastructure Grant was important for service delivery. 

She said at the end of