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Pretoria - Four members of Cabinet urgently need to brainstorm to find money for government's local authority rescue plan.
Cabinet has instructed Sicelo Shiceka, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, to get together with his colleagues in the Presidency - Trevor Manuel, who heads the National Planning Commission, Collins Chabane, who is charged with monitoring and evaluation, and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan - to devise plans to fund the turnaround.
A national coordinating unit within the Department of Cooperative Governance will manage the turnaround plan with the assistance of working groups that include a ministerial advisory committee, a reference committee for civil society and an inter-governmental working group.
Vuyelwa Vika, Shiceka's spokesperson, said on Sunday that Shiceka had met each of the three ministers individually, but a joint meeting had not yet taken place. This would however quickly eventuate as the teams were already working.
On Friday the department said that the first task on hand was to enter into agreements with each province on how the plan would be implemented, taking into consideration each province's needs and capacity.
In the department's turnaround plan that Cabinet approved on December 2, it is explicitly stated that no consultants need be involved in the drawing up of the municipal turnaround strategy. By July this year the municipal and national remedial plans for local government should be fully operational.
- Sake24.com
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