The municipality leaves it up to its executive committee and councillors to follow their conscience and contribute what they want to the city’s Covid-19 relief fund.
At the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, the eThekwini metro declared that its leaders would follow the example of President Cyril Rampahosa and his Cabinet and contribute 30% of their salaries to the government’s pandemic relief fund.
“I raised it on the exco WhatsApp group. Krish Kumar [eThekwini’s chief financial officer] posted the banking details of the municipality solidarity fund.” Graham said she and her fellow DA exco members had contributed a percentage of their salaries to a variety of charities and feeding schemes because of the city’s failure to implement an across-the-board approach for its senior leaders and management.
The legitimacy of the eThekwini council meeting that passed the 4% salary increase for councillors has been challenged in the high court by the DA because Graham’s address to the budget debate was muted by other councillors and the virtual feed for the public ceased to function. But the MEC last week put the brakes on the increases on the grounds that the municipality could not afford them.
Hlomuka’s spokesperson, Senzo Mzila, confirmed that the department had not passed the municipality’s budget because of the salary increase.
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