KZN COGTA tables R1.7-billion budget
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs has tabled its budget for the 2018 / 2019 financial year.
Dube-Ncube presented her department's financial plans at the KZN Legislature in Pietermaritzburg earlier.
In this Budget we pledge to implement in the 2018/19 financial year concrete plans which will positively impact on the lives of our people across the diversity of our society #kzncogtaBudget
— KZNCOGTA (@kzncogta) May 3, 2018
Dube-Ncube also announced an array of austerity measures to help municipalities cut wasteful expenditure on non-core items, such as mayoral vehicles and security as well as municipal consultants, events, catering, cell phones and credit cards, and redirect funding towards service delivery to communities.
“Our own departmental austerity measures will now also apply to local government via a National Treasury circular which lists new cost-containment regulations that will be gazetted to become compulsory for all municipalities. In the past, such measures were mere guidelines but now they are non-negotiable,” said Dube-Ncube.
"We are also announcing a total ban on the use of municipal credit cards as well as severe restrictions on catering, entertainment and advertising by municipalities. We will be putting in place an oversight mechanism with proper management of consequences for non-compliance by municipal office bearers, councillors and officials," she said.
#kzncogtaBudget In a few moments, MEC Dube-Ncube will be presenting to the Provincial Legislature our departments 2018/2019 budget of R1.679-billion. Some of the key issues that the MEC will touch upon include the cutting of wasteful expenditure in Municipalities. pic.twitter.com/wEOslPUddZ
— KZNCOGTA (@kzncogta) May 3, 2018