Ugu District Municipality is under the cosh again, this time from the South African Communist Party (SACP) Lower South Coast District.
The party has challenged the municipality to address several issues, which they say they want rectified as soon as possible.
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SACP members marched to Ugu’s main office in Connor Street on December 5. They presented a memorandum of concerns to the municipality.
The memorandum highlighted the following:
* The billing system needs to be rectified and the municipality needs to issue accurate bills
* In-sourcing of all essential services
* Answers on service delivery failure
* A forensic investigation into the misuse of municipal funds
* An investigation into contractors and emergency contractors charging exorbitant sums for work undertaken for the municipality
* Service delivery in rural areas, including RDP houses, community halls, clinics, road construction and electricity
* Local economic development where only a few local companies benefited from Ugu’s procurement system.
Fakazi Ngcobo, treasurer of the SACP Lower South Coast District said, “We are prepared to close down Ugu. The billing system is a huge problem and it has failed to achieve a clean audit. We are saying enough is enough.
“The accounting officer must account and investigations must be done. When we submitted the memorandum we made it clear that we won’t rest until justice is done.”
He added that members would embark on a march to Ugu’s main office tomorrow (Friday) as no response to the memorandum had been received from the municipality.
Ugu District Municipality communications officer, France Zama said the memorandum had been accepted by mayor Mondli Chiliza and all issues raised were noted and would be dealt with accordingly.
“Some of the issues raised such as the billing system are being attended to and are a work in progress. The mayor will give a progress report on the issues already being dealt with as soon as possible.”
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