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Number 23
October 17, 2009
It's all bad news, I'm afraid.
The number of riots and violent protests over bad service delivery and
collapsed municipalities is growing: Sakhile township in Mpumalanga
is calm, but protests are erupting in Sabie, Belfast, Nelspruit,
Alberton and Diepsloot in Johannesburg. In Tshwane townships, the
problem is that the council cannot apply credit controls because
whenever they attempt to recoup outstanding service charges their
officials are attacked.
Power-struggles within municipalities have crippled the functioning of
the councils of the Orange River district, almost all the towns in the
North-West where infighting and rampant corruption in local councils
have led to the collapse of almost the entire province; and Qwa-Qwa.
A lack of capacity means that 15 out of 61 councils in KZN are
unsustainable and will shortly collapse. The Auditor –General has
also revealed that out of the 283 municipalities country-wide, only 3
have their finances in order. The MEC for Local Government in
Mpumalanga has revealed that all the municipalities in the province
are on the brink of collapse.
There is a growing crisis over the quality of water. 24
municipalities are pumping sewage directly into their local streams.
32 municipalities have been warned about the collapse of their sewage
systems by the national department.
And then of course there are the implications of the electricity
tariff increases. Have a look at the website to see what your
municipality is entitled to charge.
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