Parliament recalls eThekwini to answer unresolved governance, service delivery questions

By Sihle Mavuso

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has summoned the eThekwini Municipality to appear before it on 11 August after finding its previous responses to questions on governance, finances and service delivery to be inadequate.

In a letter dated 28 July 2026, committee chairperson Dr Zweli Mkhize instructed the municipality to provide detailed responses to 12 outstanding issues following its appearance before the committee in May.

The letter was addressed to eThekwini mayor, Cyril Xaba, and copied to KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) MEC Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi.

Mkhize said the previous engagement, which was held jointly with Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), was marked by “vague, unclear and evasive” responses from municipal officials.

“The joint committees of the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) acknowledge receipt of the response submitted by