Salga pleads with Treasury for more money to boost service delivery

It's been identified as one of the ANC's top priorities for the year.

At the ANC’s birthday celebration in Managung this past weekend, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that numerous municipalities are failing to deliver basic services.

He says unattended sewage spills, uncollected rubbish, and a lack of infrastructure are just some of the problems residents are having to deal with.

Salga's Thami Ntuli believes adequate funding is the solution.

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"We have been lamenting that only 9 percent of the shares received by the local government hence the statement on its own is a mere statement if no action to capacitate more local government by ensuring that the funds are made available at the level where the people reside. 

"And we are of the view that local government will be a solution to the issue of delivery provided that funds are properly located."

Ntuli's also responded to Ramaphosa's statement about easing laws that restrict informal traders.

"We support the view that local government must ease the regulation on informal traders or on emerging SMMEs."