Speaking at an investment conference in the Eastern Cape on Thursday , Godongwana pointed to the violence that occurred in July 2021 in KwaZulu Natal and in Gauteng which lead to the deaths of 350 people.
“You see it in factories, plants and small businesses closing shop and retrenching workers, because they cannot rely on the timely provision of electricity and water.” He pointed to the latest state of a local government report which shows that of South Africa’s 278 municipalities, 175 are in financial distress“About a decade ago, in 2010/2011, the number stood at only 66 municipalities. That means that municipalities in financial distress have tripled. In addition, there are 43 municipalities facing financial and service delivery crisis. There are also 112 municipalities who have adopted budgets this year which they cannot fund,” he said.
“This reversal... municipalities.”a veiled way of saying things were better before the ANC. 'councils...misspent... budgets and... skills...' means the ANC cannot do its job due to incompetence, 'municipalities... budgets... which they cannot fund,” means that they are lying.
Yet another govt. minister speaking from the sidelines as if his org. is not the actual cause of the sh*t state of affairs. He and his inmates took a dump on the cntry for 28 whole yrs and they’re now shocked the place stinks like a sewer.