Godongwana pressures councillors over municipal shortfall
Minister Godongwana urged councillors to work harder to ensure the municipality's sustainability
Black News 
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the Lichtenburg-based Ditsobotla Local Municipality should not depend on national government to turn things around.
Godongwana officially handed over the revised financial recovery plan to the municipality’s council on Friday.
The national government took over the running of the municipality in September last year, following years of provincial interventions, which failed to produce positive results.
He urged councillors to work harder to ensure the municipality’s sustainability.
“If you listen to councillors, they are not taking any responsibility. We have got to work with them, to understand that, to change Ditsobotla is their responsibility. They are the elected representatives. Ditsobotla community has elected them, not us and they have to take the responsibility for changing the municipality around.
Councillors in the Lichtenburg based Ditsobotla Local Municipality in the North West have urged national government to ensure that plans for the municipality result in tangible developments. https://t.co/okScKsGCSy pic.twitter.com/uawnVgoLfG
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