All 22 North West Municipalities Not ‘Sustainable, Responsible Or People-Centred’ – Premier Job Mokgoro

Riyaz Patel

A delegation from The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has heard of the chaotic state of all 22 municipalities in the North West province.

North West Premier Job Mokgoro set the tone, painting a depressing state of affairs. “If we are to tell the truth and be honest with whoever would care to listen to us, the state of our 22 municipalities in the North West province is nowhere near becoming sustainable, responsible and people-centred,” he said at a briefing at the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality.

Compounding the problem, Mokgoro said, there are instances of various municipalities resisting section 139 intervention, “where instead of working together with the provincial government to stabilise and turn around the state of municipalities, they opt to challenge the intervention in the courts of law.”

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