(B). Basic Service Delivery 5.9 Municipal Council: The District was experiencing serious challenges with the supply of portable water and connection of sanitation infrastructure. The infrastructure required more grant allocation to be upgraded, and the two grants provided for by Government did not provide enough funds to kickstart the infrastructure roll-out programme. In addition, the District has complained that the formula used for the distribution of local government equitable share was problematic. They alleged that the formula did not take into account issues of service delivery and infrastructure backlog that existed. The equitable share was also being used for the roll-out of the indigent policy which was not budgeted for. This remained a serious challenge for many municipalities in the country, which includes municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal, North West, Mpumalanga, Free State, Limpopo and Northern Cape who have also complained about the formula allocation to subsided poor municipalities.