The Emthanjeni Local Municipality reported that it has a R50 million which was written off and this was approved by the Council. The ELM informed the Committees that the South African Lotto company will give them R9 million and the ELM plans to use this donation for improving services to local communities. The ELM admitted that it has huge service delivery backlogs; some of which were inherited from the past. The ELM reported that the donation from the South African Lotto company will be used to address some of these backlogs since some households do not have water and electricity and it was difficult for the ELM to address these challenges due to insufficient funds.