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ANC Ekurhuleni Regional Task Team (RTT) members from left: Convener Doctor Xhakaza, co-ordinator Jongiziswe Dlabathi, deputy co-ordinator Moipone Mhlongo, deputy Convener Eric Xayiya and treasurer Absalom Budeli at the conference in Germiston. Photo by Happy Mnguni

ANC Ekurhuleni Regional Task Team (RTT) said the current coalition government is not working and doesn’t benefit residents.

The RTT hosted a media briefing in Germiston, Ekurhuleni on Tuesday, 5 March.

The RTT said the city can’t deliver services, especially to the poor.

RTT co-ordinator Jongiziwe Dlabathi said the ANC in Ekurhuleni was considering pulling out of the coalition.

“Under the current multi-party government, the municipality is not performing.

“The city is about to collapse, and it’s in a high liquidity risk,” said  Dlabathi.

He said the RTT has been closely monitoring the developments within the City of Ekurhuleni and subsequently undertook an assessment of the municipal performance.

“Given the outcome of the assessment, the Regional Task Team expressed a serious concern about the current state of the city, which is troubling.  

“Our view is that the state of the city is currently defined by, among others, a glaring and deepening crisis of poor financial position, exacerbated by the lack of a convincing and practical turnaround plan to improve our financial position,” he said.

Dlabathi said the high liquidity risk largely affects the city’s ability to fully service current financial obligations, particularly the payment to small businesses who have rendered services.

He said they are concerned about the high level of inefficiencies in addressing core service delivery queries such as electricity interruptions.

“This has plunged the community of KwaThema and many other parts of the city into darkness for unprecedented hours and days.

“The ineffective waste collection, particularly in Tembisa, where illegal dumping is fast becoming uncontrollable, is becoming a serious health hazard,” said Dlabathi.

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He said the Ekurhuleni mayor must not be a spectator in this process when the integrity and the credibility of the city are being compromised.

“It’s, therefore, our perspective as the ANC that we don’t need to salvage the City of  Ekurhuleni from what may become a total collapse, particularly in the provision of basic services like energy water sanitation repairs and maintenance as well as our standing of the finances,” said Dlabathi

He said they condemned the disruption of the council by the EFF.

“Their disruption, like many other political parties would have said, had no justification but it was a pure undermining of the council.

“This culture of bullying and disrupting the council must come to an end, for we believe in robust debates order and the decorum of council including tolerance,” said Dlabathi.

He said they were disappointed with the speaker of the council for not using the authority and responsibility bestowed upon her to maintain and preserve order in the council.

On February 29, a chaotic scene broke out in council meeting in Germiston after ANC and EFF councillors got into a fistfight, with water bottles and papers being thrown at each other.

This led to Speaker Nthabiseng Tshivhenga, who is an EFF councillor, walking out of the house.

This comes after ANC and EFF councillors threw punches in the Ekurhuleni council meeting over the mayor’s no-confidence vote.

This was as the motion for a vote of no confidence against Ekurhuleni Mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana was being tabled.

ActionSA had put forward the motion of no confidence against Ngodwana owing to his “failure” to deliver services to the people of Ekurhuleni.