Following a
series of poor governance practices which includes, among others, disregard for
the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA), especially regarding procurement processes,
evidenced by the tenders irregularly awarded to Glad Africa, Aurecon and the
alleged loss of R1.6 billion to PEU Group. In addition to that is the frequency
of unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful (UIFW) expenditure as per
the Auditor General’s report with the MPAC report indicating that the City of
Tshwane investigated only R1, 7 billion of the total R6, 9 billion UIFW. 
Moreover, findings
on UIFW incurred by the City continue to rise and the City has been slow in
effectively applying consequence management over the same period; and constant
irregular appointments of senior managers, for example, the Department of
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) received the appointment
report of the municipal manager and various managers directly accountable to
the municipal manager between January and September 2017, the Department found
some areas to be non-compliant with Regulation 17(4) of the Local Government
Regulations on Appointment and Conditions of Employment of Senior Managers
(2014).
The MEC for
COGTA, Mr Lebogang Maile says “Gauteng Executive Council (Exco) has been left
with no choice but to invoke the provisions of Section 139(1) read together
with Section 154 of the Constitution, by taking appropriate steps to support
and strengthen the capacity of the City of Tshwane to effectively execute the
constitutional objectives of local government as embedded in section 152 of the
Constitution. This will assist in restoring functionality, governance stability
and adequate service delivery in the City”.
Furthermore,
MEC says “in line with the above, Exco has also instructed the Gauteng
Department of COGTA to immediately develop a cogent plan with the appropriate
steps to be taken in order to give effect to the Constitutional obligation of
the provincial government in terms of Section 154 that will culminate in proper
and meaningful support to the City of Tshwane”.

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