Hon Chairperson and hon members, the current state of the local government performance and compliance of Mahikeng Local Municipality is a serious cause for concern in that, by location, this municipality is the capital city of the North West Provincial Legislature and the provincial government. It is therefore reasonably expected that this municipality should strive to function optimally and deliver services to the local community without fail. Its performance and execution of its role and mandate is hampered by its inherent failure to embrace good governance and accountability, failure to acknowledge and appreciate the essence of oversight and monitoring and evaluation of performance. It is one of the municipalities which are notably reluctant to report openly on how it is using funds allocated for service delivery implementation.
In line with the mandate of the NCOP, the select committee embarked on a loco oversight visit to this municipality with the sole objective of interacting with the internal and external stakeholders to elicit their opinion on the constitutional, procedural and
substantive matters related to innovative of section 139(1)(b) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. The North West Department of Local Government and Human Settlements briefed the select committee on the constitutional procedures and substantive matters related to the invocation of section 139(1)(b) of the Constitution.
The representation focused on service delivery, governance, administrative inability and financial challenges. In terms of constitutional and procedural matters, the select committee has observed that the national Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Cogta, the NCOP, the Free State provincial ...