Mayor: Gamagara Local Municipality
Councillor D. Moyo

Admitting and acknowledging that the 2016/2017 was a very challenging year for us at Gamagara Local Municipality, resilience and commitment saw us through. We saw illegal land grab and marches against the municipality that are not related to service delivery amongst others. Not only negative things happened, we also experienced positive attributions. We had a stable interface between Political and administration which provided seamless improvement of good governance and efficient service delivery. Like I mentioned before that even though we had marches, none of the marches were service delivery related rather were politically motivated. This was evidenced by the emergence of Forums which evolved from business to political in nature. 

The Gamagara Council has always been committed to its core business value s and principles to deliver better services to all its residents as enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and further affirmed by the Municipal Systems Act and Municipal Finance Management Act.

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Update on the outstanding debt owed to bulk suppliers and Settlement Incentive (s) on the outstanding debt owed to the municipality

As reported last week the municipality has rolled out a new system in line with the new regulations rolled out by National Treasury for Municipal Standard Chart of Accounts (MSCOA). Please note that this change is not unique to Gamagara municipality and all 257 municipalities were forced to comply with this regulations by 01 July 2017 otherwise this was to be regarded as financial misconduct. This migration caused serious challenges; especially with billing, as the municipality could not bill from July 2017 to September 2017. As a results the municipality could not pay the bulk suppliers; i.e. Eskom and Sedibeng Water, for the periods mentioned above as the consumers were not paying their accounts as a results of not receiving accounts.

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OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE MUNICIPALITY ON THE POSSIBLE INTERRUPTION OF BULK ELECTRICITY AND WATER SUPPLY BY BOTH ESKOM AND SEDIBENG WATER

The municipality received a notice from both Eskom and Sedibeng Water about its intentions to interrupt the bulk electricity and water supply unless the municipality settles its outstanding debt with these entities. We currently owe Eskom an amount of R55 million and Sedibeng Water an amount of R8 million. The municipality entered into debt settlement agreements with; both, the above mentioned entities back in June 2016.

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Petition Against The Budget For 2017/18 from Gamagara Local Municipality

On Friday 23rd June 2017, residents of the Gamagara Local Municipality are marching to the municipal buildings to hand over this memorandum as well as a signed petition to the Mayor of Gamagara Local Municipality. The petition was signed by more than 1100 local resident and is included in this memorandum. We as ordinary residents are deeply concerned over the recently approved Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and general budget for the municipality. Our objections are detailed in the petition which also includes our demands. We deplore on the Mayor and her council to handle this matter with the seriousness and urgency it deserves and to rectify the situation immediately.

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