uMsunduzi Municipality aims to clean up its city

uMsunduzi Municipality aims to clean up its city

The embattled uMsunduzi Municipality which is under administration, has been plagued by numerous problems, including maladministration, fraud, poor service delivery and a chaotic billing system.

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Yesterday, Cooperative Governance MEC Sipho Hlomuka went to go have a look at the billing system and promised it would be fixed.


uMsunduzi spokesperson, Thobeka Mafumbatha, says they're rolling out several initiatives to improve services. 


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"We focusing on enforcing our by-laws. If you walk around in some of our busy streets in Pietermaritzburg, you will see alot of hawkers that are not licensed that have been removed.


 There is a massive cleanup campaign. We are replacing street lights that are no longer working. It's a consolidated approach in all our areas of service delivery to ensure people are getting the services they deserve. 


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