I hereby give notice that I shall move:
That the Council -
(1) notes that -
(a) We have been told that most municipalities in the country are in a shambles and can't deliver basic services to our people;
(b) about 56 local municipalities - 11 of them in the Eastern Cape - are on the National Treasury's financial distress list, and the majority of these municipalities are led by the ruling party, the ANC;
(c) in the Western Cape the ANC-controlled municipalities are a disgrace, because their mayors and their municipal managers focus their energies on fighting over positions instead of rendering services to our people on the ground; (d) it was further reported that almost half of those municipalities were found guilty by the Auditor-General of unauthorised and wasteful expenditure;
(e) based on the wasteful expenditure I have just mentioned, again the government is wasting taxpayers' money by hosting hundreds of delegates from all over the country. [Interjections.] [Time expired.]