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Another citizen group takes its local municipality to court
In this case to get rid of a municipal manager who just wonât leave, despite repeated accusations of mismanagement. 00:01
A legal opinion commissioned by the municipality itself found that the municipal manager does not have the required qualifications. Image: Mamusa Local Municipality website
It seems the citizens of North West province have had it with dysfunctional local governments.
Moneyweb recently reported on a judgment in the Mmabatho High Court handing over control of water and sewage services in Kgetlenrivier to local residents after they had been left to rot.
The Special Investigating Unit has launched an investigation into a tender which the national Department of Health awarded to a small company that is allegedly linked to close associates of the health minister.
We must have parliamentary oversight and make a national state of disaster subject to the same procedural constraints that already apply to a state of emergency in our law. After all, the risks of the abuse of power under a state of national disaster are similar to those historically associated.
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