3.6.9 National Treasury advised Government that they need to strengthen cooperative governance. National Treasury urged municipalities to work closely with them and to refrain from denying that they are in trouble until a disaster happens. In other words, National Treasury strongly believed that municipalities 'grow' problems into mountains and only try to act against them when things are beyond control. Recent service delivery protests across the country attest to this argument. National Treasury confidently stated that some municipalities' report do not reveal problems in municipalities until service delivery protests erupt.