Cogta Visits Umsunduzi Municipality As Part Of Kzn Oversight

The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs is visiting the Umsunduzi local municipality on Wednesday. This is part of an oversight visit to KwaZulu-Natal this week.

Parliaments portfolio committee on co-operative governance, led by chair Dr Zweli Mkhize, met with the leadership and residents in the eThekwini municipality on Tuesday. Today, the committee will visit the Umsunduzi local municipality.

Under administration, the municipality has been plagued by a number of challenges including poor service delivery, the management of funds and governance. The engagement will include a community meeting at Pietermaritzburg town hall.

This comes after the committee's Chairperson Dr Mkhize said the eThekwini Metro has numerous problems including water supply interruptions, poorly maintained and damaged infrastructure as well as a decline in tourism.

"There have been challenges in governance in Ethekwini which have necessitated the need for the president to institute a team to go and help to support the municipality, we are also aware that there have been changes in the leadership but in particular we have seen the report for the auditor general that indicating that the financial management issue they need to be looked at, that also, most of the financial management weaknesses that they have seen, it also going to do political interferences, Mkhize explained.