Pretoria - The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) says it is satisfied with progress being made to return the embattled Mooi Mpofana Municipality to its former glory.
This was the verdict by the KZN MEC for Cogta, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, following an assessment of the first 30 days since the Provincial Government undertook to dissolve the local municipality on 1 September 2014.
Since the appointment of the Administrator, the recovery plan for the municipality has been developed and various government departments have been mobilised to support it.
The municipality is going back to basics by focusing on issues of basic service delivery, which include addressing reported illegal dumping, grass cutting and cleanliness of the town of Mooi River.
“Indeed, a new and brighter Mooi Mpofana is looming on the horizon as a result of our intervention,” said MEC Dube-Ncube.
It is expected that in the next three months, the Independent Electoral Commission will facilitate a series of by-elections to fill the vacancies created by the dissolution of the previous municipal council.
The process will result in the constitution of a new council which will reclaim the executive powers that are now performed by the Provincial Executive.
MEC Dube-Ncube expressed her satisfaction with the support Cogta has received from various stakeholders, including the business community, unions, farmers, amakhosi and the wider community.
She vowed to ensure that anyone implicated in any form of wrong doing including corruption will face the consequences of his or her actions.
“Indeed a lot of work has been done to improve the systems and right all the wrongs that compromised good governance in this municipality.
“Of course, we still have a lot of issues to attend to but we are far better off than we were when we started. We are navigating these turbulent times and taking the Mooi Mpofana municipality forward,” said MEC Dube-Ncube. – SAnews.gov.za
