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BL Premium reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has welcomed the Treasury’s decision to inject R450bn into struggling municipalities.
According to the department of co-operative governance & traditional affairs’ local government barometer, “64 municipalities are currently dysfunctional, 111 on the brink of dysfunctionality, while only 16 out of 257 are stable”, Dumisane Magagula, the union’s general secretary, noted. He added: “The challenges faced by these municipalities are financial in nature. In Kopanong Local Municipality in the Free State, workers have not been paid their salaries for three months.” According to Magagula, several municipalities are deducting money for third parties such as medical aid, pension fund and funeral policies from workers’ salaries but this money never gets to the third parties, resulting in the lapsing of policies. Samwu, which represents about 160,000 of the country’s 300,000 municipal workers, said the challenges faced by municipalities necessitated the need for such interventions by national and provincial governments. “This would ensure that municipalities are stabilised to ensure continued and improved service delivery to residents.” The country’s 257 municipalities, which are at the coalface of service delivery, have received a shot in the arm with an allocation of more than R450bn from the fiscus over the 2022 medium-term expenditure framework.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
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