Sakeliga v MEC North West: Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Others

Naam

Sakeliga v LUR Noordwes: Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake en Andere

Citation

Begin / Start

Apr 9, 2021

Tipe / Type

Litigasie / Litigation

Hof

Hooggeregshof: Mahikeng

Court

High Court: Mahikeng

Litigasiefase

Gunstige uitspraak

Phase

Case won

Volgende hofdatum

Opsomming

Eskom, waterrade en ander belangrike diensverskaffers word nie deur die Ditsobotla en Naledi munisipaliteite in Noord-Wes betaal nie - ten spyte daarvan dat eindgebruikers van dienste elke maand vir dienste betaal. Munisipale invorderings vanaf eindgebruikers verdwyn telkens in ‘n bodemlose put van korrupsie en groeiende loonrekeninge. In hierdie saak vra Sakeliga daarom die hof dat hangende die behoorlike implementering van ‘n finansiële herstelplan kragtens ‘n ingryping deur die Nasionale Tesourie, ‘n onafhanklike ouditeursfirma as sogenaamde “spesiale meester” aangestel word ten opsigte van die vervalle respondent munisipaliteite se finansies. Die spesiale meester se pligte sou behels om die aparte munisipale bankrekening te bestuur, alle invorderings en heffings vir kritieke dienste soos water, elektrisiteit en opgradering van kritieke infrastruktuur daarin te ontvang, en verskaffers direk vanuit daardie rekening te betaal. Die regering het die meeste van Sakeliga se bedes geïmplementeer voor die saak na verhoor gevorder het en die betaalmeester-regshulp het daarom akademies (moot) geword.

Summary

Eskom, water boards and other important service providers are not getting paid by the Ditsobotla and Naledi municipalities in North West – notwithstanding the fact that end users of services pay for services every month. Municipal collections from end users repeatedly disappear into a bottomless pit of corruption and escalating wage bills. In this matter, therefore, Sakeliga is requesting the court that, pending the proper implementation of a financial recovery plan in terms of an intervention by the National Treasury, an independent auditing firm be appointed as so-called “special master” in respect of the key financial matters of the decayed respondent municipalities. The duties of the special master would be to manage a ring-fenced municipal bank account, to receive into this account all collections and levies for critical services such as water, electricity and upgrading of critical infrastructure, and to pay suppliers drectly from such account. The government implemented most of Sakeliga's pleas before the case progressed to trial and the paymaster legal aid therefore became moot.

Teenpartye

LUR Noordwes: Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake

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