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Annette
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Praat en dreig.
Dit is doen wat die nie-betalers laat spring.
Soos wat Kaapstad Munisipaliteit die afgelope 2 weke bewys het.
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Annette
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> Water gate is die een ?
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> servicegates?
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> ."R17bn owed 'in unpaid services'
> 15/06/2006 19:42 PM
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> Gauteng boosts Aids budget
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> Gautrain snaps bulk of budget
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> Gauteng set for robust growth
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> Gauteng 'for sale'
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> Johannesburg - Gauteng local governments are owed R17bn for unpaid
> services, MEC Qedani Mahlangu said on Thursday.
> Mahlangu said, while delivering her budget speech in Johannesburg, that
> the debt, which was incurred due to unpaid services, was hampering
> service delivery in the province.
>
> She lashed out at public servants, councillors and businesses that
> defaulted on payments.
>
> Mahlangu said: "Defaulting councillors and government employees do not
> belong in the public service. We all have to lead by example while we
> advocate for people to pay for services.
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> "This is a cause for concern because the lack of payment is hampering
> service delivery.
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> Name and shame
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> "Municipalities should enforce their credit control measures and name
> and shame defaulters especially government departments, big businesses
> and those masquerading as the poorest of the poor."
>
> Mahlangu said municipal managers had been tasked to monitor the payment
> levels of their employees in ensuring that public servants "lead by
> example".
>
> Also, she said her department was working and supporting municipalities
> in developing strategies to deal with local government debt.
>
> "A financial advisory committee has been set up to assist the
> department in dealing with the financial challenges facing
> municipalities.
>
> "I trust that this intervention will help support municipalities to
> comply with the Municipal Financial Management Act. This will help to
> turn around municipal finances."
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> Upgrade local municipalities
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> With a 63% increase to her budget, Mahlangu said the R210m would be
> used to upgrade the standard of local municipalities.
>
> "We have allocated R50m to municipal support to enable them to deliver
> basic services, improve infrastructure development and become
> financially viable," she said.
>
> Key priorities, according to Mahlangu, would be the upgrading of water
> and sanitation in the province, restructuring of the electricity
> distribution industry, and support for cross-border municipalities
> which were part of Gauteng.
>
> "We have committed ourselves to eradicate all the 12 332 identified
> bucket systems by the end of June 2006 in order to give people the
> dignity they deserve.
>
> "The department will continue to work with the relevant stakeholders
> and Gauteng municipalities in the restructuring of the Electricity
> Distribution Industry (EDI). While progress has been made in
> Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni, there is a need to speed up the process in
> Pretoria."
>
> Together with the department of housing, Mahlangu said R330m had been
> set aside for the Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) to upgrade "20
> priority townships" in the province.
>
> Root out bad elements
>
> In dealing with corruption within local government departments,
> Mahlangu said her department had partnered with the Special
> Investigations Unit (SIU) to "root out bad elements".
>
> "We have demonstrated our seriousness in dealing with acts of
> corruption in municipalities such as Emfuleni and Kungwini where senior
> staff members and councillors have either been fired, suspended or are
> facing criminal charges," she said.
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