Ramaphosa says many municipalities are failing

JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa says malfeasance in municipalities is a threat to the constitutional order.

Ramaphosa was speaking at a South African Human Rights Commission conference on Local Governance, held in Sandton.

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Only 16-percent of South Africa’s 257 municipalities have been given a clean audit by the Auditor General for the 2020-21 financial year.

He said, "political contestation and infighting, lack of skills failure to adhere to legislation, poor governance lack of accountability as well as what I would call "super corruption" are causing instability in municipalities and an eroding provision of services to ordinary South Africans...this is a crisis."

"It is the crisis of enormous proportions. Continuing on this trajectory is neither available nor sustainable... it undermines constitution promise of human dignity...it is threat to our constitutional order," the president continued.