Nelson Mandela Bay is among 15 municipalities in the Eastern Cape that failed to convince the National Treasury not to withhold a portion of its conditional grant funds for the 2023/2024 financial year.
The provincial Treasury has called for disciplinary action against public officials who redeem travel and accommodation vouchers for cash, as the practice is in violation of legislative prescripts. Border-Kei Chamber of Business (BKCOB) said officials who engage in the practice should be reported to police.
While education bosses have declared the province ready for the academic year starting on Wednesday, on Monday Eastern Cape schools were battling with queues of parents desperate to secure places for their children.
The October 13 ADM council decision to “please” striking employees by approving their long-anticipated salary increases, has come back to haunt the broke municipality.
Plans by the newly elected Amathole district municipality’s political leadership to implement long-standing salary increases for the district’s workforce have been dampened by the provincial treasury, which advised the municipality that its plans were not affordable. The new ADM troika, after meeting protesting employees last week, agreed to effect the more than 6.
A revised Eastern Cape liquor authority act with stringent measures on compliance is yet to be put into law by provincial authorities due to a lack of funding, four years after it was passed by the Bhisho legislature.
The National Treasury has imposed financial interventions in eight Eastern Cape municipalities that were identified as being in distress. Working with the department of provincial treasury and co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta) in the province, the intervention requires the preparation and implementation of a financial recovery plan (FRP) to assist the municipalities in crisis.
The Eastern Cape government is taking control of eight municipalities red-flagged by the National Treasury as being on the brink of collapse and requiring urgent intervention.