Joburg Council Speaker Mthembu notes growing disconnect between residents and municipality over service delivery
Johannesburg Council Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu said there was a growing disconnect between residents and the municipality, mainly due to unhappiness over service delivery.
Johannesburg Council Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu. Picture: X/SpeakerofJoburg
JOHANNESBURG - Johannesburg Council Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu said there was a growing disconnect between residents and the municipality, mainly due to unhappiness over service delivery.
Mthembu recently completed a two-month public participation process on the city’s draft budget for the next financial year.
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The integrated development plan, as it's formally known, is the mayor’s vision for Johannesburg over the next three years.
Mthembu said that the attendance during the public participation process was not satisfactory.
"In a nutshell, a lot of our residents are not happy with the municipality, there is a gap between the municipality, which includes the public representatives, the entities and our residents. If we don’t close that gap from our side, as legislature, then we will still continue having a lot of our people not attending IDPs and community-based planning."