Dit is geen wonder dat munisipale dienste feitlik ophou bestaan het as die onderstaande berig in ag geneem word. Krag en watervoorsiening het die hoof bron van befondsing uit veral blanke gemeenskappe geword wanneer begrotings nie klop en geldtekorte in munisipaliteite ontstaan.

Onder blanke beheer het raadslede en burgemeesters slegs ‘n gratifikasie ontvang waarvan niemand finansieel sou kon bestaan nie. Burgemeesters en raadslede het gemeenskapsdiens gelewer terwyl hulle in voltydse beroepe gestaan het vir inkomste.

Munisipale belastings kon dus ten volle aangewend word vir die doel waarvoor dit gehef was. Selfs die kleinste dorpies se voorkoms was versorg en infrastruktuur gevestig en instand gehou soos wat dit in ‘n beskaafde land hoort. Die huidige vraatsug na geld, ongeag die fisiese agteruitgang kan en sal nie gestuit word deur Gordhan of enige ander minister indien hy weer ‘n pos wil beklee waar hyself ten koste van Suid Afrika se vooruitgang besoldig word. Met die vooruitsig dat ‘n burgemeester 1.177 miljoen rand per jaar uit die munisipale geldkas kan trek, is die vooruitsig op al hoër belastings en tariewe ons voorland. Indien wanaanwending, aanwending sonder goedkeuring, korrupsie en diefstal in aanmerking geneem word, sal elke stad in Suid Afrika ‘n “stat” word en elke dorp ‘n plakkerskamp.

 Gaan ry deur Suid Afrika se dorpe, lees die berig hier onder en verskil as u wil. Feit is egter dat ons pragtige land reduseer word tot ‘n rommelhoop onder die veelgeroemde “jong democracy” van die liberale gemeenskap in Suid Afrika wat dit gevestig het met behulp van die NP van de Klerk, die kerke en geïnfiltreerde Afrikaanse kultuurorganisasies en sportliggame.

Die oplossing bly verset! Verset u teen hierdie onreg in die staat, in die skool, in die kerk, in die plaaslike owerheid teen die tolstelsel, in kort teen elke onreg wat teen ons aangelê is met die oog op totale uitwissing van die Afrikanervolk!

Holding us to ransom

Olebogeng Molatlhwa | 19 June, 2015 00:07

Gordhan wants salaries of councillors to be based on the size of the population they serve - and on their ability to generate revenue for their town or city. File photo

Municipal councillors want to earn R1.3-million a year - the same as MPs.

Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Pravin Gordhan has gazetted a system for grading municipalities and the salaries paid to their councillors.

Gordhan wants salaries of councillors to be based on the size of the population they serve - and on their ability to generate revenue for their town or city.

According to the Government Gazette, salaries of senior public officials in municipalities should be based on a scale of 1 to 6, with 6 denoting a more populous and wealthy municipality.

The mayor of a grade6 municipality would be entitled to up to R1.177-million a year, whereas a grade1 mayor would be paid about R653158 a year.

Gordhan also wants a cap on the allowance paid to councillors for attending committee meetings and the introduction of a properly managed car-allowance system.

But yesterday the SA Local Government Association - which represents about 9000 councillors across the country - put its own demands on the table.

It wants councillors to earn the same as MPs , arguing that they have comparable responsibilities.

"On the grading of municipalities based on the income of the municipality, it is Salga's position that there should be greater equality between the payment of municipal councillors, and of MPs and MPLs.

"As all councillors have the same responsibilities, regardless of the income of the municipality in which a councillor serves, the basic salary of all councillors should be the same.

"The notion of full-time and part-time councillors should be abolished," said Salga's communications manager, Karen Reyneke.

Salga also wants councillors to be paid directly by the Treasury.

Salga's demands are being made against the backdrop of improved but still worrying local government audit outcomes for the 2013-2014 financial year.

Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu revealed that, in that year, 40 municipalities and 18 municipal entities had achieved clean audits.

The number of municipalities whose audits revealed irregular expenditure fell but Makwetu said irregular expenditure remained "unacceptably high" at R11.4-billion. He raised concerns about certain municipalities in the Free State, Limpopo and North West that had not achieved a single clean audit opinion for several years.

About 36% of municipalities received audit disclaimers.

If the 9000 councillors get their way, taxpayers would have to fork out R11.7-billion for their salaries.

Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has previously said that the fiscus is under great pressure and the situation would not improve any time soon.

"Our weak economic performance has put a great deal of pressure on the fiscus, with revenue insufficient to cover expenditure," Nene said in his maiden Budget speech earlier this year.

This latest wage demand by Salga coincides with the collapse of public-sector wage talks. Unions pulled out of negotiations after having initially agreed to a 7% increase and a medical contribution of 28%. From July 1 , full-time councillors will earn between R457210 and R832197, excluding allowances, depending on the type of municipality they serve. Their part-time counterparts will earn between R195712 and R416098 a year, excluding car allowance