Billions of rand has been squandered on mostly unsuccessful attempts to intervene at municipalities in South Africa.
This is evident from the reply to a parliamentary question by the FF Plus to Thembi Nkadimeng, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA).
It appears that the deployment of administrators and their support teams amount to a conservative estimate of on average R10 million per municipality per year.
A recent report on the state of municipalities indicates that such interventions were implemented at 173 municipalities countrywide in 2022. So, the total cost could easily amount to more than R1,7 billion.
A typical recent example of this is the intervention at the Mangaung Metro where more than R14 million was spent without any visible signs of improvement in service delivery. This Municipality is frequently shrouded in controversy due to ANC faction fights, corruption, and the overall decay of core infrastructure and municipal facilities.
Reports by COGTA, the Auditor-General (AG) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) consistently indicate that political faction fights, corruption, misappropriation and mismanagement paralyse most ANC-controlled municipalities.
Despite these facts and the billions of rand spent on so-called interventions, nearly no-one is effectively held accountable. All because the ANC government simply refuses to act against its deployed corrupt cadres.
The only way to stop this scandalous squandering and looting of South Africans’ tax money is to replace the ANC with a coalition government of which the FF Plus is part.
Together, we can repair and rebuild the country.
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