Premier Oscar Mabuyane has been urged to act against Alfred Nzo municipality’s mayor, Vukile Mhlelembana
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.has been called to act on a failing municipality that spent a mere 13% of its R123 million infrastructure budget and tried to hire a chief financial officer without academic qualifications.district municipality that the national government would withhold part of the more than R431.
The district municipality encompasses the Matatiele, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Umzimvubu and Ntabankulu local municipalities. “Alfred Nzo district municipality is committed to improving spending targets towards meeting mid-year targets,” the municipality added, without elaborating on what projects would make up the deficit in infrastructure spend.
Williams’ spokesperson Pheello Oliphant said the department had “engaged” with the district municipality, adding that Alfred Nzo had cited “late procurements and litigations as the main reasons for delayed expenditure”. understands that this is clearly cause for concern as the municipality was below the set provincial RAS target of 15% of the total allocation by the end of August 2024,” Oliphant said.
On the DA’s call for the mayor’s removal, the spokesperson said Williams did not have the “legal authority” to remove Mhlelembana unless he breached the code of conduct for councillors regulated by the national department of cooperative governance.
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