All spheres of government must work together to ensure municipalities fulfil responsibilities: Ramaphosa

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Efforts to improve the lives of South Africans will only succeed when the country effectively addresses the challenges in local government, says President CyrilRamaphosa in his weekly newsletter.

an important contribution to the district development model, which approaches local development in an integrated way that focuses the efforts of local, provincial and national government at the district level."The council was presented with proposals on local government reform and improving intergovernmental coordination in the critical areas of electricity distribution, water and sanitation services, waste management and roads," he said.

In the past year around 88 municipalities failed to spend at least 10% of their municipal infrastructure grant which is supposed to be used for eradicating infrastructure backlogsIn the past year around 88 municipalities failed to spend at least 10% of their municipal infrastructure grant which is supposed to be used for eradicating infrastructure backlogs. Another challenge is money that is not allocated for a specific purpose is often misspent," he said.

"This is often the case because they are not able to collect revenue for key services such as water and electricity. It is imperative municipalities must have credible, sustainable and well-managed revenue collection programmes that apply fair and equitable standards to all customers. Citizens should play their part by paying for services," said Ramaphosa.ment departments to pay outstanding debt to municipalities, saying t

he PCC recommended the National Treasury and the department of cooperative governance should develop measures to further support and strengthen municipal revenue collection systems with urgency.

 

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