. That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the North West Provincial Treasury should ensure that municipalities appoint qualified officials; . That municipal managers should provide quality information to councilors to enable them to make quality decisions; . That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the Provincial Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs should develop a plan to further capacitate Councillors in their oversight role; . That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the National Treasury should contribute to the Municipal Turn around Strategy by developing tools that are going to assist municipalities to comply with all provisions of the Municipal Finance Management Act; . That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and The presidency should develop rules and procedures on how the provincial and national government departments should fully and actively participate in the Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) of the municipalities and ensure that IDPs are aligned to the provincial Growth and Development Strategy; . That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the National Treasury should develop programmes aimed at assisting municipalities (especially low-capacity municipalities) with the conversion from the Institute of Municipal Finance Officers to the Generally Recognised Accounting practice reporting systems; . That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and the National Treasury should ensure that the plans to establish internal audits, audit committees, and budget and treasury offices are included by municipalities in their municipal turnaround strategies; . That the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs should assist municipalities in providing communities with clean drinking water and the removal of refuse at Bloemhof; . That the Ministers of Correctional Services and Public Works endorse the cancellation of the planned correctional services centre at Ditsobotla Local Municipality; . That municipalities should honour agreements with regards to interventions; . That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, in consultation with National and Provincial Treasuries, should review conditional grants with an aim of improving appropriate spending on conditional grants; . That the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, National Treasury and other affected shareholders should strengthen intergovernmental relations, in a co-coordinated way, when interventions are made in municipalities; . That National Treasury should examine the supply chain management matters as most of the municipal tenders are not taken through all the processes; . That the Select Committee on Finance, together with the Select Committee on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, should do a joint follow-up visit to the municipalities in the Province of North West to ascertain progress made by sector departments as per commitments they made during this oversight visit and that this follow- up visit be made three months after the adoption of this report. . That the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs should closely monitor the support that is given to the municipalities by national and provincial departments, Eskom, and SALGA in terms of intergovernmental relations framework and section 154 of the Constitution; . That the Select Committee on Finance should engage with the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces on the establishment of a dialogue with the Premier and the political leadership of the Province of North West with regard to the Committee recommendations and monitoring of municipalities and provincial departments; and . That the Department of Co-operative Government and Traditional Affairs and the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs should engage with district municipalities on their status as water service providers. Report to be considered.