Cabinet set to intervene in ‘collapsed Mangaung Metro’

Cabinet ministers are set to join hands to take action on the collapsed Mangaung Metropolitan municipality next week.

This comes after the city was placed under administration for its failure to deliver service delivery to its residents.

Ministers, Mondli Gungubele in the office of the Presidency, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma will convene in a briefing, where interventations will be put into place to save the embattled metro.

Since its establishment in 2011, prior to that it was a local municipality under the Motheo District Municipality, Mangaung has battled to deliver services to its residents.

According to the report released by finance minister David Masondo in 2016, the opposing parties pointed out that Mangaung misused R500 million, since some contractors were unpaid by the municipality and had to quit jobs.

According to Masondo’s announcement back then, a financial recovery plan was put in place for Mangaung in December 2019.

The recovery plan failed due to poor governance and finance management.

Meanwhile, the city’s executive mayor Olly Mlamleli faced the boot in 2020, after she lost the battle to retain her position following a motion of no confidence brought by the FF Plus, that was supported by a majority of councillors including the her cadres in the branches.