City of Tshwane collapsing under Mayor Randal Williams
18 July 2022
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in Tshwane Region has noted with concern the Auditor General’s report classifying City of Tshwane as the worst performing Metro in Gauteng Province. Further to that, the Auditor General raised frustration with Tshwane’s high levels of irregular expenditure totalling R2.7 billion and reliance on consultants even on work that can be done internally by municipal workers.
It is unfortunate that the City continues to ignore procurement processes and issue tenders through short cuts. SAMWU has been raising these matters with the City’s management indicating amongst other things that the City is utilizing contractors even in areas where employees are performing such tasks. The City continues to utilize outside attorneys in disciplinary and bargaining cases when there are internal appointed attorneys to do that work.
Amongst other things that create the untenable and instability in Tshwane are the following:
1. High turnover of senior managers