Discussion | State of municipalities requiring urgent intervention

JOHANNESBURG - From dilapidated infrastructure, hijacked properties to overall poor delivery of services -- there's no doubt to South Africans that the deteriorating state of municipalities requires urgent intervention.

The longstanding problems at cash-strapped Emfuleni municipality required intervention from national level, with ministers getting involved after it failed to pay employees.

Unpaid Eskom debts led the power utility to attach its accounts.

In Limpopo, residents have been threatening a shutdown.

And KwaZulu-Natal's only metro eThekwini, faces challenges that have also forced high level intervention.

CoGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa tells us more about the national government’s plans to turn these municipalities around.