The Agency for New Agenda (ANA) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) which are spearheading the #LocalGovernmentMustFall campaign are seeking High Court orders to dissolve “unaccountable” local authorities.
The organisations noted that the Auditor General had recently revealed that more than R27 billion could not be accounted for by national and provincial government departments.
“Guised under the accounting jargon of ‘irregular‚ fruitless and wasteful expenditure’ this unmitigated and wanton looting of public funds is fast driving our country down a slippery road into becoming a failed state‚ thus threatening our hard-won democracy‚” the organisations asserted.
They added that as a result they had “turned to our courts – as the last frontier of our constitutional democracy – to put an end to this crisis”.
“Launched initially in selected municipalities in Gauteng‚ North West and the Free State (to be followed by other municipalities later‚ as well as provincial and national departments)‚ this initiative‚ dubbed #LocalGovernmentMustFall‚ is seeking relief from our courts‚ among others‚ to:
-order the dissolution of those local councils that have repeatedly violated our laws and our Constitution and put them under administration‚ and
-to hold municipal-wide by-election as prescribed by our Constitution.”
The municipalities involved are Tshwane‚ Madibeng‚ Moretele‚ Matlosana and Tlokwe.
“Year after year since the dawn of democracy‚ South Africans have been subjected to what has become routine reports by the Auditor General in which a culture of unaccountability‚ gross maladministration‚ gross financial mismanagement‚ rampant corruption and mass looting of public funds by unscrupulous politicians and civil servants at national‚ provincial and local spheres of government‚ including other entities owned by the state‚ have become a common occurrence.
“For far too long‚ South Africans have watched‚ helplessly‚ as hordes of marauding thieves disguised as politicians and civil servants raided the public purse and robbed our country of billions of rand and denied millions our people of the much needed resources to uplift them from their conditions of squalor‚ misery‚ disease and poverty‚” the organisations stated.
#LocalGovernmentMustFall asks courts to dissolve 'unaccountable' municipalities
The Agency for New Agenda (ANA) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) which are spearheading the #LocalGovernmentMustFall campaign are seeking High Court orders to dissolve “unaccountable” local authorities.
The organisations noted that the Auditor General had recently revealed that more than R27 billion could not be accounted for by national and provincial government departments.
“Guised under the accounting jargon of ‘irregular‚ fruitless and wasteful expenditure’ this unmitigated and wanton looting of public funds is fast driving our country down a slippery road into becoming a failed state‚ thus threatening our hard-won democracy‚” the organisations asserted.
They added that as a result they had “turned to our courts – as the last frontier of our constitutional democracy – to put an end to this crisis”.
“Launched initially in selected municipalities in Gauteng‚ North West and the Free State (to be followed by other municipalities later‚ as well as provincial and national departments)‚ this initiative‚ dubbed #LocalGovernmentMustFall‚ is seeking relief from our courts‚ among others‚ to:
-order the dissolution of those local councils that have repeatedly violated our laws and our Constitution and put them under administration‚ and
-to hold municipal-wide by-election as prescribed by our Constitution.”
The municipalities involved are Tshwane‚ Madibeng‚ Moretele‚ Matlosana and Tlokwe.
“Year after year since the dawn of democracy‚ South Africans have been subjected to what has become routine reports by the Auditor General in which a culture of unaccountability‚ gross maladministration‚ gross financial mismanagement‚ rampant corruption and mass looting of public funds by unscrupulous politicians and civil servants at national‚ provincial and local spheres of government‚ including other entities owned by the state‚ have become a common occurrence.
“For far too long‚ South Africans have watched‚ helplessly‚ as hordes of marauding thieves disguised as politicians and civil servants raided the public purse and robbed our country of billions of rand and denied millions our people of the much needed resources to uplift them from their conditions of squalor‚ misery‚ disease and poverty‚” the organisations stated.
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