Rustenburg: For the province to ensure that municipalities placed under mandatory and voluntary
Financial Recovery Plan interventions register progress, the North West Provincial Financial
Recovery Plan (FRP) Political Oversight Committee has been instituted.
MEC For Finance, Ms Kenetswe Mosenogi held the inuagural meeting to lay the foundation and
ensure that the interventions are implemented in the ten (10) identified municipalities.
The North West Provincial FRP Political Oversight Committee is comprised of Mayors and Speakers
of these municipalities with the MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlement and Traditional
Affairs as the Deputy Chairperson.
MEC Mosenogi said that “the primary responsibility to avoid, identify and resolve financial problems in
a municipality rests with the municipality itself. In instances where these have not been done and
mandatory and voluntary Financial Recovery Plans interventions instituted, the municipality must take
responsibility of complete implementation.
Municipal Councils are directed to demonstrate leadership, exercise effective oversight and enforce
accountability to ensure that the Financial Recovery Plan achieves its intended outcomes and lays
foundation for long term municipal sustainability.
Successful implementation of the FRP relies on an environment characterized by political buy-in.
Political leaders must embrace the interventions as solutions to problems facing th municipalities,
identifying and mobilizing human and financial resources needed, monthly and quarterly reporting as
well as consequence management.”
The Executive Committee (EXCO) resolved in November 2021 to place eight municipalities( Naledi,
Dr RSM, Madibeng, Kgetleng, Ramotshere Moiloa, Tswaing, Ditsobotla and Mafikeng under
mandatory intervention in line with S139(5) (a) and (c) of the Constitution read together with Section
139 of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA). In addition to Section 139(5)(a) and (c)
mandatory intervention, the Provincial Treasury provided support to Mamusa, City of Matlosana and
Maquassi Hills local municipalities with the voluntary financial recovery services, in line with section
154(1) of the Constitution.
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