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Deputy co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Dickson Masemola, who is also a member of the ANC’s national executive committee (NEC), has pledged an overhaul of local government.
“We assure South Africans the local government of tomorrow will not necessarily be the same as what might have happened in the previous few years. We have learnt lessons, we understand and appreciate those negativities and disappointments,” he said.
“As we move to the future we are occasioned for greater performance and effective delivery of services informed and guided by much needed political leadership that will find its resonance in how it translates into the efficacy of social systems of the administration.”
The interventions will be part of the decisions taken at the weekend’s ANC NEC lekgotla and were expected to be presented at the cabinet lekgotla on Wednesday.
“The lekgotla … was certain that out of the experiences we have learnt recently, for example our intervention in eThekwini where a senior cadre of the movement was deployed,” said Masemola.
“It beckons the ANC to make sure that with greater social conscience and ingenuity, we must consider deployment of senior capable cadres because this level or sphere of government is important, if not central.”
Masemola said the ANC had learnt from the general elections in May last year that service delivery at local government was a significant contributing factor to it losing its outright majority in parliament.
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