Opposition parties stump efforts to raise senior eThekwini officials' pay
Updated | By Sandile Zikhali
It would have taken his salary to close to R4-million.
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Increases for the deputy city managers and the COO had also been tabled.
The opposition party councillors walking out meant the proposal could not be approved as the meeting did not have a quorum.
The proposal was withdrawn yesterday.
DA's leader in eThekwini, Nicole Graham says the hikes were unjustified.
"We don't believe that city management deserve the current salaries they getting, let alone increased salaries. Service delivery is at an all-time low, expenditure of the capital budget was only at 70 percent, yet we have communities across the municipality crying out for better service delivery."
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The IFP's Mdu Nkosi says the municipality has other serious matters to spend money on.
"It can't be correct that people of eThekwini are lamenting a lack of service delivery, but we would be giving the City Manager an increase to say he is doing good work. There is nothing good in eThekwini."
The EFF's Mlebuka Hlengwa says the proposal was unfair to eThekwini citizens.
"We are very disappointed how the ANC treats the people of eThekwini in terms of such things. This was ridiculous."
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