a) The Minister will table the names of 55 municipalities identified as dysfunctional during the next CoGTA budget vote speech. The annual MIG transfers of the identified municipalities were stopped at least twice in the past five years.
b) The primary causes of the distress and/or dysfunctionality can be traced to poor financial management, poor infrastructure management, and/or poor governance and administration. Part of the planned intervention will involve high level assessment of the actual causes in order to better inform interventions.
c) The Department is adopting a multi-pronged approach, which will includes: