Pretoria - Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Richard Baloyi has appointed a team of experts to provide support to Madibeng Local Municipality in the North West.
The decision to intervene follows the recommendations of the Ministerial Task Team deployed to Madibeng to look into the report by the previous administrator, and to assess whether the section 139 intervention - as resolved by EXCO in 2011 - was warranted in the municipality.
The recommendations by the team were supported by Baloyi, North West Premier Thandi Modise and the Acting MEC for Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Paul Sebegoe.
Baloyi tabled the Ministerial Task Team report to the Madibeng council and also introduced the members of the support team.
“A team of officials from both National and Provincial Government will primarily support the council of Madibeng to develop, implement and oversee a work plan to address the recommendations of the report by the administrator, who handled the previous section 139 intervention, as well as the recommendations of the Ministerial Task Team.
“Some of the issues in the report refer to disciplinary processes, improvement of financial management and improvement of service delivery,” said Baloyi.
The team members include Pascal Moloi, who is the former Municipal Manager of the City of Johannesburg. He also brings extensive experience in local government. Moloi is now a consultant and serves in the National Planning Commission (NPC).
The team also includes chartered accountant and consultant, Boysie Phehlukwayo and Tebogo Motlashuping, who is the former Municipal Manager of Lekwa Teemane Local Municipality, Acting Municipal Manager for Ventersdorp and the current Chief Director in the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
The team, which will function for a period of six months, started working on Wednesday, and has already had a briefing session with the mayoral committee. - SAnews.gov.za
