Councillors from the Matatiele municipality in the Eastern Cape travelled to Umhlanga Rocks north of Durban for their annual planning meeting, at a cost of more than R1-million.
This year’s meeting, at the Garden Court Hotel, took six days, from 5 February to 10 February. A total of 108 rooms were booked, at R1,500 a day, not including catering. The 54 councillors and some of their staff could each claim travelling costs, up to R3,000.Matatiele Local Municipality spokesperson Luncedo Walaza said the exact cost of the event would only be known later this month but R1-million had been budgeted.
The grass is indeed cut and some roads are maintained, but not all is well. Three multi-million projects have been dormant for years in Matatiele. Walaza said the tender for the completion of the sports centre and silos had closed in July last year. He did not say when the two projects would be completed.
Commenting on the sports centre, resident Lubabalo Mandlamakhulu from Itsokolele said the municipality had been promising to finish it since 2021.
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