Madibeng put under administration

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The Madibeng local municipality has been placed under provincial administration, North West premier Thandi Modise said on Tuesday.

The municipality, which oversees services in Majakaneng, Mothutlung and Hebron was placed under administration by the provincial executive council on Monday.

The process could last between six months and a year.

"The provincial executive council has assumed the executive obligations and responsibilities as mandated to the Municipal Manager by Section 55 of the Local Government Municipal Systems Act, Act 32 of 2000 as well as the powers and functions allocated to the Executive Mayor in terms of Section 56 of the Local Government Municipal Structures Act and vests same in the administrator," Modise said in a statement.

She said the municipality was dysfunctional and had failed to fulfil its legislative obligations.

Blake Mosley-Lefatola, who is a former city manager of Tshwane would be heading the administration.

He was tasked to look through the municipality's finances, improve service delivery and attend to labour issues amongst other things.

Modise called on Madibeng residents to not interrupt the intervention.

The residents went on the rampage several weeks ago following a water shortage in the area.

Four people died in Mothutlung, near Brits, during the violent protests.

In nearby Hebron, residents called for the resignation of their ward councillor amid service delivery protests.

They claimed the councillor neither listened to them nor addressed their grievances.

Last month Madibeng mayor Poppy Mangongwa and two other officials --chief whip Solly Malete and speaker Buti Makhongela resigned.

No reason was given for their resignations.


Source : Sapa /nsm/aa/jje
Date : 11 Feb 2014 08:13
 
Modise called on Madibeng residents to not interrupt the intervention.
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Don't interrupt the interruption....:p

Last month Madibeng mayor Poppy Mangongwa and two other officials --chief whip Solly Malete and speaker Buti Makhongela resigned.
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These people should be placed on a black list and prevented from ever working for the government again. Its just way to easy for them to resign when things go tits up only to pop out somewhere else in one or other governmental position.
 
MKFrost said:
These people should be placed on a black list and prevented from ever working for the government again. Its just way to easy for them to resign when things go tits up only to pop out somewhere else in one or other governmental position.
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Implementing a rule like that would solve a lot of problems. Maybe just following the normal government guideline of 5 years, the bigger problem is not so much the rule, but the application thereof. There are plenty of rules that exist, there just don't seem to be any willing people at management levels wanting to implement them.
 
Thandi Modise. Does she think announcing the appointment of an administrator for Madibeing solves the problem? Now that she made the announcement, she probably thinks her job is done.

Instead of properly managing her province to prevent this kind of disaster, she rather goes out to buy expensive cars, after being explicitly told not to do so.

Let me not even get started on the debacle with her CV.
 
What if the province itself needs to be put under administration.
 
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