{"id":24882,"date":"2013-10-31T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/10\/request-for-makana-municipality-to-be-placed-under-administration\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:48:10","slug":"request-for-makana-municipality-to-be-placed-under-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/request-for-makana-municipality-to-be-placed-under-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Request for Makana Municipality to be placed under administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The DA in the Eastern Cape has requested that the Makana Municipality be placed under administration. <\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s bail-out by Rhodes University to pay R3 million to Makana as \u201cadvanced rates\u201d because the municipality couldn\u2019t pay staff salaries shows a municipality in dire financial distress.<\/p>\n<p>Grahamstown\u2019s water crisis, caused largely due to lack of funding to repair or replace ageing infrastructure, was another red light of Makana Municipality\u2019s serious financial trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I have written to the MEC for Local Government, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, to undertake a forensic investigation of the finances of Makana and to place the municipality under administration.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, my colleague in parliament, Kevin Mileham MP, has written to the Minister of Cooperative Governance, Lechesa Tsenoli, asking him to intervene in this matter.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, I will be following up why the Municipal Manager of Makana refuses to sign a Performance Agreement (a requirement by law) allegedly because he has received a better employment offer elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, the DA calls for this Municipal Manager to be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>With Makana being a popular tourist- and education centre and Grahamstown a judicial seat of the High Court, it is imperative that swift action be taken to ensure stabilisation of this municipality.<\/p>\n<p>The DA will ensure that this takes place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dacre Haddon<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ts-fab-list\">\n<li class=\"ts-fab-bio-link\">Bio<\/li>\n<li class=\"ts-fab-latest-posts-link\">Latest Posts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/08482_aa3a8bdcbd6e89499066ea9a0285a439\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/08482_aa3a8bdcbd6e89499066ea9a0285a439\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DA in the Eastern Cape has requested that the Makana Municipality be placed under administration. Last week\u2019s bail-out by Rhodes University to pay R3 million to Makana as \u201cadvanced rates\u201d because the municipality couldn\u2019t pay staff salaries shows a municipality in dire financial distress. Grahamstown\u2019s water crisis, caused largely due to lack of funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3330],"tags":[3338,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-24882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-port-elizabeth","7":"tag-mype-co-za","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}