The municipality was criticised after a video was circulated showing residents of Evaton West swimming in a water-filled pothole.
Pretoria - The ANC-led Gauteng government has been slammed for failing to address the financial problems at the embattled Emfuleni municipality, despite the high-powered visits led by Premier David Makhura to the area this week.
“The dispute comes after employees who were moved to a higher salary scale never received their increased salaries and allowances. Municipal employees were granted an order for the municipality to pay them a total of R28 million in backpay,” Tlhokwe said. In February, the South African Human Rights Commission found that the raw sewage flowing in the river was a violation of human rights of residents.
“You go anywhere in the municipality and residents will tell you that waste is not being picked up. We have intervened because the municipality was not able to do certain things. We are not just intervening. We are also bringing in our resources,” he said.
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