The leadership of Sekhukhune District Municipality (SDM) led by Executive Mayor Minah Bahula and Municipal Manager Meshack Mahlagaume Kgwale has embarked on accelerating service delivery to the people without trepidation.
Both leaders are experienced in working for local government in various strategic positions geared to enhance the lives of the communities. Following their appointments Bahula and Kgwale vowed to defuse any element of corruption that might hamper their mission of getting clean audit opinions and unqualified reports.
Their working relationship has given hope to the people of Sekhukhune that it is better to be led by leaders’ who rather die for the ideas that will live, than to live for their ideas that will die.
Sekhukhune District Municipality has been subjected to murky reports of malfeasance and corruption which continued to haunt the borough.
However Bahula said: “It will be disingenuous to turn a blind eye to corruption. We must never allow its ugly head to torment our municipality. Corruption must cease to exist, and we must advocate good governance. We urge our employees to refrain from laziness and entitlement tendencies at the expense of our communities. We need to respect our people by ensuring that we become transparent, proactive, dedicated, determined and transparent when providing them with services.”
In heeding to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call of good administration, Bahula said there is a need to defuse snail pace in providing service delivery to the community as well as addressing all the challenges that are tormenting the society within the municipality.
“It is potent to always thrive for perfection when we deal with our people who have been too patient with us. We must address their challenges speedily because they are running out of patience. It must indeed be business unusual as we address a number of challenges in the municipality such as dilapidating infrastructure and water scarcity,” Bahula added.
Kgwale is the former acting Municipal Manager of Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality (EMLM) who holds a B Tech in Commerce from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and a Post graduate Diploma in Public Administration, from the University of Witwatersrand, majoring in Monitoring and Evaluation was able to restore a protracted water problem that took the district years to fix.
Known as a consummate administrator leader following his 17 years’ experience, Kgwale who steered EMLM to the 100% Municipal Infrastructure Grant spending and Unqualified Audit Opinion for three consecutive years said: “It is important to use municipal funds accordingly. Wasteful and fruitless expenditure must be avoided at all costs. Accounting officers must always thrive for good governance, clean audit and unqualified reports. Corruption has no place in our municipality because our mission is to accelerate service delivery to the people as well as enhancing their lives.”
“Our people deserve better and it is imperative to advance their lives. We must advocate clean governance. We can never claim freedom if our society is subjected to corruption and unorthodox trends by government employees who don’t respect their employment contracts and mandate. The revolution must not be televised but realised. Therefore, we must put the people first with the spirit of Ubuntu.”
Comments