Parliament grills Treasury over R13.5bn municipal funding freeze as 27 councils get money back
By year-end, they owed Eskom R3.40bn in interest and water boards R1.21bn, while 116 municipalities, nearly half the country's councils, had adopted unfunded…
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"The people of this country are not represented in any other format except in Parliament, by the elected people," he said. Pieterse said the intervention followed years of support that had failed to change municipal behaviour.
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"The people of this country are not represented in any other format except in Parliament, by the elected people," he said.
according to IOL (Independent Online)Pieterse said the intervention followed years of support that had failed to change municipal behaviour.
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