The Kopanong municipality in the Free State's Xhariep district suspended municipal manager Martin Khubeka on Friday as the embattled council has failed to pay its employees for three months.
on Friday as the embattled council failed to pay its employees for three months.non-compliance with National Treasury protocols in supplying the required documentation for the council to receive its equitable share from the government, and it was this failure that resulted in employees not being paid.
Treasury withheld the equitable share due to non-compliance with Municipal Financial Management Act prescripts, a legislative requirement to monitor and oversee the financial expenditure and performance of a municipality.“We are in talks with provincial Treasury to get our equitable share and the council has instructed management to do all necessary documentation of compliance.
“I could not think of a more isolated place to spend my days, but what I saw and experienced when I came back to my hometown nearly shocked me within an inch of my life.”Supplied/Serike Grobler Grobler, who lives in the former municipal manager's old house across the road from the council’s storage facilities, said the electricity supply was cut to all government buildings at the beginning of November, including the traffic department, post office, magistrate's court, and ambulance and police services.
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