Free State: Service delivery grinds to a halt due to non-payment of salaries
15 June 2022
Service delivery has basically come to a standstill in the six Free State municipalities that failed to pay their officials' salaries.
It is understandable that many officials simply stopped working seeing as this is probably the second consecutive month that they will not receive their salaries.
In most of these municipalities, officials' pension fund deductions are also not paid over to their pension funds.
In reply to questions by the FF Plus in a Portfolio Committee meeting of the Free State Legislature, the Department of Cooperative Governance confirmed that the Masilonyana, Tokologo, Mafube, Kopanong, Mohokare and Mantsopa Local Municipalities cannot fulfil their salary obligations.