COGTA confident of turning troubled Ditsobotla Municipality around

JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) is confident it will be able to turn the troubled Ditsobotla Municipality around.

The North West municipality has recently been placed under administration following issues of maladministration and poor service delivery.

On Tuesday, COGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa will be meeting with councillors from the municipality to communicate the recovery plan.

For the second time since the 2021 local government elections, the national government has been forced to intervene in the embattled Ditsobotla Municipality.

In 2022, the municipal council was dissolved, and there were fresh by-elections in all its wards.

The decision came after there were two mayors,  two Speakers and two municipal managers appointed at the municipality at the time.

COGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa said his mandate was to make the municipality work.

"I am very confident; I am of the view the provincial government wants to see this municipality working. Even most of the councillors, not all of them, are willing to see services going to the people."

Hlabisa has called on all councillors to put their personal and political rivalries aside and work together to fix the municipality.