The people who will ultimately suffer are the residents.
Local elections due this year if the Stalin council allow it.
Ideal timing for the residents to do something about it.
Not something they can do.
The issue is literally
BEE[corruption, cronyism, nepotism,etc which are often directly a result of BEE directives]
The ANC have top loaded councils (and government) with too many staff.
Salaries are by far the highest cost.
What needs to happen is that employee's get culled to pre-94 numbers (assuming same size muni between then and now, or appropriately scaled up for size), and performance agreements signed with all staff.
If you don't shape up, you lose your job.
Thats what needs to happen, and it needs to happen all over the country - SoE's, Home Affairs, Government, Councils etc.
Its political suicide to do so however, so it will not happen.
Short term thinking by the ANC, together with outright theft is the cause. This is the result. Failures and no money to go around.
The IMF if they deigned to give us loans (newsflash, they said heck no), would at least force the ANC into doing some of this. We're not there yet, so expect a good few more years of failure until there literally is no other option, or we go full on Zim.
The ANC doesn't take responsibility for their actions, so expect Whitey to be the scapegoat for anything that has, will, or may go wrong at any point in the future.
i.e. "- Oh noez, no money as we stole it all! It's the white peoples fault."
Thats the sad future.