These were the decisions taken in the PEC meeting
A week before their 104th anniversary celebration, the ANC held a provincial executive committee (PEC) meeting and decisions taken in the meeting were disclosed during a media briefing on Tuesday
POLOKWANE – Local government elections were one of the topics on the agenda, and ANC Provincial Secretary, Nocks Seabi, said at this stage, the ANC candidates for the municipal elections were not known.
“We are unable to say how many councillors will come back. The nominations are still at branch level and will be sent to the provincial office for a decision. From there the list of nominees will be sent to the national office for approval. I can, however, confirm that if a councillor was not committed, not working hand in hand with the community and failed to deliver on providing services to residents, that councillor will not come back.
“I can also confirm that 60% of those who are nominated must have experience in local governance,” Seabi said.
The PEC also took a decision on the case of Capricorn Mayor, Gilbert Kganyago.
“The executive mayor has a sanction of three years’ suspension imposed by a disciplinary committee in the Peter Mokaba region. He has since appealed both the sentence and sanction. The PEC resolved, therefore, to allow his appeal to get the attention of the provincial disciplinary committee in line with the ANC constitution. The PEC will await the report of the disciplinary committee,” Seabi said.
He added that the PEC had noted that the majority of ANC-led municipalities were performing well, capable of delivering the much-needed services to communities, improving the quality of life for citizens.
“It is clear from our assessment that majority of our municipalities have improved their management systems and service delivery standards despite the existence of some challenges which vary from one municipality to the other,” he said.
The PEC resolved as follows on local governance issues:
• To assist municipalities to ensure attraction and retention of technical expertise to accelerate service delivery.
• To improve on municipalities to accelerate expenditure levels on key service delivery programmes and projects.
• Municipalities must fill all critical positions at senior level.”
The PEC also identified the devastating effects drought is causing in Limpopo. “It is affecting our crop and livestock farming, threatening jobs and livelihoods of thousands of our people. The PEC noted the assistance the Department of Agriculture is already providing. The PEC implores the department to do everything in its capacity to further help farmers and cushion them on this hardship during this difficult period.
“The PEC also calls on individual citizens and institutions to utilise water sparingly as water levels in our dams have dropped significantly,” Seabi said.
Asked how the ANC would deal with there not being enough space in schools for children, and schools not having enough facilities, Seabi said the ANC was worried about the latest examination results and the state of the Department of Education, but the Limpopo government’s executive committee has started with intervention and the PEC would evaluate the results of the intervention.
