Question NW1064 to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
01 April 2022 - NW1064
Marais, Ms P to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
What has she found to be the reasons that the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality is unable to deliver basic services such as waste removal and fixing of leaking sewerage pipes?
Reply:
The Department of Corporative Governance (DCOG) together with MISA, all provincial departments responsible for local government and provincial treasury departments, under the leadership of the Minister of Corporative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), prepared the State of Local Government report 2021.
The reasons for the Mangaung Metro Municipality (MMM) was found to be dysfunctional with challenges in all pillars namely political, governance, administrative, financial & service delivery. All these challenges contribute to the MMM not able to sufficiently deliver basic services such as waste removal and fixing of leaking sewerage pipes.
It is for that reason that Mangaung Metro has since been placed under section 139(5)(a) and (c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa; read together with Section 150 of the Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 (MFMA) to deal with challenges identified above.