PREMIUM By Bhongo Jacob - 12 March 2021
Almost 150 Eastern Cape schools have been without water all week because the provincial education department owes the Amathole district authority R8m. ..
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Chair of the portfolio committee MP Faith Muthambi (GCIS)
Amathole District Municipality and Eastern Cape Cogta laid into each other during Parliament s Portfolio Committee of Cogta on Thursday over the municipality s financial mess.
Chair of the portfolio committee MP Faith Muthambi heard from ADM that Cogta was not supporting the ailing municipality financially at all.
Cogta Eastern Cape told Muthambi that it warned ADM years back to reverse its unlawful recategorisation of the Grade 6 authority to a Grade 7, which allowed
municipal manager, senior managers, and employees to earn way more than they deserved.
At the centre of the problems of the financially crippled Amathole District Municipality (ADM), is a fractured relationship between the municipality and the provincial department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) overseeing the local authority.
ADM officials ‘kicking back against intervention team’ PREMIUM By Soyiso Maliti - 26 February 2021
A provincial intervention team sent to the dysfunctional Amathole district municipality (ADM) is facing resistance from ADM leadership officials who are “in denial”, according to Cogta MEC Xolile Nqatha.
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SAMWU WANTS BROKE MUNICIPALITYâS MANAGER FIRED! By Luvuyo Mehlwana
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SAMWU has welcomed the provincial governmentâs intervention to rescue the bankrupt Amathole Municipality. But they want to see the city manager fired.
On Thursday 21 January the Eastern Cape provincial government invoked section 139 (5) (a) of the Constitution into the affairs of the municipality.
Last week, the municipality wrote a circular informing workers, councillors and traditional leaders that they would not be getting salaries from February to June.
That led to the provincial government appointing a task team after it had engaged the Department of Co-operative Governance and Treasury on the intervention into the affairs of the Amathole.
(Amathole District Municipality, Facebook)
The municipality can t afford to pay its salary bill of R65 million per month.
People in the six local municipalities under Amathole have been enduring interrupted and unreliable service for three years.
The embattled Amathole District Municipality has been placed under administration.
The Eastern Cape government announced on Thursday morning that its executive council had taken a decision to invoke Section 139 (5) (a) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa into the affairs of the district authority.
The Constitution states that the provincial government may impose the Section 139 (5) (a) if a municipality, as a result of a crisis in its financial affairs, is in serious or persistent material breach of its obligations to provide basic services or to meet its financial commitments, or admits that it is unable to meet its obligations or financial commitments.