Thank you very much, hon Chairperson. I rise on behalf of the Northern Cape in support of the recommendations by the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to dissolve the dysfunctional Council of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in the interest of service delivery to the people of Tshwane.
Our support is based on the fact that the majority of stakeholders in that municipality, both internally and externally concur that the municipality is in a state of paralysis and has dismally failed to deliver deserved services to the people of Tshwane. The continued collapse of council meetings and the excessive political bickering as well as the total disrespect of rules and orders by the
council and the failure to apply the rules, all those are testimony to a paralysed institution that is unable to fulfil its Constitutional mandate.
The fact that Tshwane Metro has failed to elect an Executive Mayor since the resignation of Stevens Mokgalapa is a confirmation of a crisis of the highest proportions. The absence of the Executive Mayor has a ripple effect in that there is no mayoral committee and there is no oversight provided on the administration.
Section 79 Committees have not performed their duties in line with the Municipal Structures Act, Act 117 of 1998. Public participation has been negatively affected by the absence of ward committees, since the election of that council in 2006. This means that the community has been, has never been represented in the compilation of the Integrated Development Plan, IDP. [Interjections.] It is an insult to the people of Tshwane and a clear flouting of the Municipal Systems Act, Act 32 of 2000 in relation to public participation. [Interjections.]
Hon Chairperson, Tshwane Metro has reached a political cul de sac ... [Interjections.]