eThekwini metro splurges billions in overtime claims while its people sit in limbo
13 March 2023
Leaders of the eThekwini Metro Municipality never miss an opportunity to demonstrate why it has become a matter of urgency to remove them and the African National Congress (ANC) as governing party of the Municipality, after splurging a whopping R3.6 billion in overtime in the last five years, while its people sit in limbo without services.
It is undeniable that the eThekwini Municipality has been a state of disaster for numerous years, with issues varying from poor leadership skills, run-down infrastructure, lack of service delivery and corruption.
However, one gets a sense of just how serious the lack of leadership has been become on the metro.
Shockingly, the overtime cost for clusters within the municipality recorded in the month of August 2022 paint a grim picture of some clusters had used more than 50% of their overtime budgets, with Trading Service cluster having used 58.84%, Economic Development and Planning used 72%, and the Governance and International Relations used a staggering 101.92%, which amounted to the Municipality using R217 214 670.98 of its R521 822 830 of its overtime budget.