The municipality faces not only service delivery problems but a political crisis which has seen it having two mayors, two speakers and two municipal managers representing two warring ANC factions.
The National Council of Provinces on Wednesday approved the dissolution of the Tswaing local council. File photo.With less than three weeks before the local government elections, the National Council of Provinces on Wednesday approved the dissolution of the Tswaing local municipality in the North West.
The province said Tswaing could not meet its short-term obligations and owed creditors about R354m as at June 2021, with R54m owed to Eskom. “The appointed administrator, including the intervention team, should deal with all problems and challenges of the municipality, including disciplinary action of any employee, and where possible, opening of criminal cases on matters related to corruption and financial mismanagement,” it said in its recommendations to the provincial government.dissolving a municipality less than three weeks before a local government election was no indication that the elephant in the room had been identified.
“Further than that, the deep-rooted endemic rot, the inability to address political issues of ill-discipline of councillors, fraud and corruption, financial mismanagement and maladministration confirms a dysfunctional council but without a doubt a collapse of administration,” she said.
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