The National Treasury Gazette 48327 which was issued for the performance of municipalities on their grant spending, reported underperformance and non-compliance in Polokwane Municipality’s ability to spend conditional grant funds. The gazette indicates that the following grants will be reduced due to an inability to spend allocated funds:
Its Free State chairperson, Patricia Kopane, said 17 municipalities in the province have forfeited R171 million of the allocated conditional grants for the 2022/23 financial year.She said th.
On 15 February 2022, the National Treasury’s Malijeng Ngqaleni, wrote a letter to the municipality informing it of its intention to stop funding worth millions of rands after the municipality faile.
In a letter sent to the municipality, the Treasury’s Malijeng Ngqaleni says Treasury intends to stop an amount of R36.9 million and R183.3 million from the municipality’s 2021/22 Water Service Infr.
KZN municipalities secure R3.1 billion to improve water infrastructure
By Sakhiseni Nxumalo
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DURBAN - KwaZulu-Natal municipalities have secured R3.1 billion to tackle water infrastructure challenges outlined in the provincial Water Master Plan.
KZN Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Sipho Hlomuka, revealed this in his departmentâs budget policy speech at the KZN Legislature, on Friday.
The provincial Water Master Plan focuses on the construction of new dams, maintenance, rehabilitation of ageing infrastructure, and improved revenue collection.
The plan was presented in January this year to the portfolio committee on local government as a work in progress.
Hlokuma said the funds would go towards the improvement of water infrastructure in the provinceâs municipalities.