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The Mayor’s Foreword
According to Chapter 7 of the Constitution of the democratic Republic (Act 108 of 1996), local municipalities must provide for a democratic and accountable climate for local municipalities. Municipalities must do this within its financial and administrative capacity to enable it to give priority to basic needs of communities in order to promote social and economic development within their juristic functional areas.
Amahlathi Municipality therefore is no exception. It must account on how we have been handling the administrative and financial functions on behalf of our communities. One must say it up front that Amahlathi Municipality has been caught up with political instability since October 2008 up to the 23 November 2010 where political structures of Council were established. This impacted negatively on the political oversight that is supposed to be played by political office bearers of the organisation and some programmes have been put on halt because Council was quite suspicious of the administrative arm in dealing especially with the issue of employment of staff for the organisation.
Amahlathi Municipality did manage to involve community representatives through IDP representative forums that have been dealing with critical issues of development in various areas. I would like to thank the political structures of the Council for the vigour and energy shown thus far in grappling with the complexity of governance which and in shaping a conflict free kind of an environment for the smooth operation of Council programmes. It is no doubt that the courage and co-operation demonstrated thus far will lead the municipality into a sound administrative and political environment, that will translate into a sound viable and sustainable development for the communities as our structures by now are up and running.
I would like to record my appreciation to those that showed dedication, skills and determination to arrive at this good financial target. Let us maintain this good financial standard so that we remain amongst the best Municipalities in respect of good practises.
Let us build a better life for all at Amahlathi Local Municipality and thank you all for making Amahlathi Municipality what it is today.
……………………… Cllr M Peter THE MAYOR |
