Dissolve “doomed” ELM: Baloyi
Baloyi called the coalition government at the ELM, “A coalition of doom.”
SEDIBENG.- Former Midvaal Local Municipality (MLM) Executive Mayor, Bongani Baloyi and now ActionSA Gauteng Leader, Bongani Baloyi has called for the dissolvement of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (ELM).
Baloyi said that an Administrator needs to be appointed at the ELM to oversee its running in accordance with section 139 of the constitution, noting that the municipality had been under administration since 2018 already but that the intervention, “Yielded little results and instead service delivery continued to decline.”
The administration which was led by the then Gauteng Premier, David Makhura’s cabinet, was ended in September this year.
On the dissolvement of the ELM Baloyi said that ActionSA believes that a “capable administration” should be appointed in the municipality.
“The situation has grown so dire that the residents and business, such as those based in the town of Vereeniging, (have) stopped paying the municipality due to its failure to deliver services with residents now owing the municipality more than R8 million. An administrator would help to address severe governance failures in the short-term while long-term solutions to the Emfuleni municipality are found,” Baloyi said in a statement.
Baloyi joined ActionSA in January this year after leaving his former political home, DA, in December last year amid much speculation about his future. In 2013, while a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Baloyi was elected as Executive Mayor of the Midvaal Local Municipality (MLM), he was only 26 years old, which made him the youngest mayor in South Africa, then.
He is now regarded as one of the top leaders in ActionSA and a close ally of its leader, Herman Mashaba. He is also said to be the party’s ( Action SA’s) automatic choice for Gauteng Premier in the next national/provincial elections.
