The Provincial Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGHSTA) presented a fairly broad overview of the state of progress regarding the Operation Clean Audit, Municipal Turn Around Strategy and Bulk Infrastructure concerns. In terms of overarching challenges COGHSTA reiterated challenges raised by SALGA with respect to the "consultants dependency syndrome", lack of political oversight and perhaps more importantly lack of capacity at the provincial level for intervention purposes in terms of the MFMA. This admission is critical because provincial and national government are enjoined by the section 154 of the Constitution as well as section 34 of the MFMA to support municipalities and enhance their capacity to meet their objectives.