North West MEC for Local Government and Human Settlement Collen Maine has urged his department to strengthen their support as they strive to ensure viable and sustainable municipalities in the province.

Addressing a special management meeting recently, MEC Maine said that there is a dire need to address the horrendous state of municipalities in the province.

MEC Maine continued that the current state of municipalities in the province should become a thing of the past.

“The reports on the state of local government are that as a department entrusted with the constitutional mandate to support and ensure viable municipalities, we need to stabilize the state of our municipalities. We need to hit the ground running in assisting municipalities and shy away from planning forever and start implementing. My greatest concern is the slow rate at which we are moving” he said.

“We will continue with our interventions in municipalities where continuous support in terms of various constitutional interventions as legislated. We will also reconvene all municipalities and engage them on their challenges as we will further institute interventions in municipalities which desperately need our support in areas such as finance and planning or any other area where there is a need for such intervention. We need to work and operate as a team to rebrand, reposition and portray this province in a better light”, said MEC Maine.
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