The seconding of Sarah Baartman District municipal manager Ted Pillay to the beleaguered and broke Makana Municipality may still be on the cards, but the ball is now firmly in the court of that municipality as well as that of cooperative governance MEC Fikile Xasa.
This is according to Makana Municipal spokeswoman Yoliswa Ramokolo.
The Concerned Citizens Committee to Save Makana (CCCSM) – which consists of several civil society, business and other organisations – last week accused Makana mayor Nomhle Gaga of misleading citizens and Xasa in her letter to Xasa in November.
In that letter, in which Gaga seeks to dodge the MEC’s threat to place the municipality under administration, she said it had been agreed that the respected Pillay would be seconded to Makana for three months with the blessing of Sarah Baartman District Municipality (SBDM).
But CCCSM said no such plan seemed to be under way.
Some two months later little had been done to ensure his secondment. CCCSM’s Ron Weissenberg suggested that not even Pillay appeared to know anything about it.
But Ramokolo said Gaga’s letter had been to inform Xasa of the meeting between the troikas (mayor, speaker and chief whip) of the two municipalities and the subsequent Makana council’s resolution that Pillay be seconded to Makana.
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This is according to Makana Municipal spokeswoman Yoliswa Ramokolo.
The Concerned Citizens Committee to Save Makana (CCCSM) – which consists of several civil society, business and other organisations – last week accused Makana mayor Nomhle Gaga of misleading citizens and Xasa in her letter to Xasa in November.
In that letter, in which Gaga seeks to dodge the MEC’s threat to place the municipality under administration, she said it had been agreed that the respected Pillay would be seconded to Makana for three months with the blessing of Sarah Baartman District Municipality (SBDM).
But CCCSM said no such plan seemed to be under way.
Some two months later little had been done to ensure his secondment. CCCSM’s Ron Weissenberg suggested that not even Pillay appeared to know anything about it.
But Ramokolo said Gaga’s letter had been to inform Xasa of the meeting between the troikas (mayor, speaker and chief whip) of the two municipalities and the subsequent Makana council’s resolution that Pillay be seconded to Makana.
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