Chairperson, thank you Deputy President, in a recent article in the Mail & Guardian, it was suggested that people should take back their municipalities. While legislatures, Cogta and Treasury are responsible for interventions and dysfunctional municipalities, residents are not seeing the effects of such
interventions. Take for example, the Masilonyana Local Municipality in the Free State, it has been under section 139 administration since March 2017, that's 31 months, Deputy President, no improvement. The residents in Brandfort at one stage had no water for five months during intervention. Sewage [Inaudible.] in Masilonyana is currently dysfunctional and citizens themselves are now fixing the infrastructure just that the services do not come to a standstill.
In Mafube, also under administration, for 31 months refuse removal of vehicles has been seized as a result of nonpayment on the administration. Also, the accounts to residents have not been issued for two months and residents go out of their way and ask for accounts only to find that the municipality cannot issue them. This is under administration. This then brings me to my question, Mr Deputy President, while there are various support programmes for interventions by Treasury, by Cogta, by provincial treasury departments, by provincial Cogta departments and now recently a deputy presidential hot spot programme to support so-called hotspots, when hon Deputy President, is the ruling party will stop launching new plans, new programmes and do the right thing in taking political actions against ANC mayors, councillors and cronies and give municipalities back to the people?