Avoid stifling service delivery

From Page 3

and should not allowed. They employed him and they must live with it,” Nhanha said.

"By the conclusion of former Makana councillor Paul Notyawa’s case, there is a good chance that the municipality will have two municipal managers - and one of them must be bought out in millions of rands we don’t have."

Notyawa in his papers seeks to have the court declare that he was lawfully appointed in the post on 12 March, and to compel Makana Municipality to conclude the necessary written employment contract “with effect from 1 April 2015, with full salary and benefits”.

The court papers document various meetings with ANC leadership at regional, provincial and national level, culminating in a meeting with Water and Sanitation minister Nomvula Mokonyane and former strategic manager in Makana Mncedisi Boma, who was fired in August 2014 after a disciplinary committee found him guilty of misconduct.

The papers claim pressure from ANC leadership to withdraw his appointment.

Emphasising what he says is a lack of political interference in local government, however, Njadayi said there were many areas in which the ruling party and opposition parties overlapped in terms of policy formulation.

“Where there are gross differences, we require that the chief whip of the ANC engages with the chief whip of the opposition.

“For example, when there was conflict about the election of certain ward committees in Makana, as the Region, we advised the local leadership to choose a path of reconciliation.

“We said they should sit down and resolve it, for the whole thing not to stifle service delivery.”

Njadayi said the focus of the ANC in the Region was preparation of its branches for the upcoming provincial and national conferences .

“We are conducting political education workshops leading to policy discussions,” Njadayi said.

“Land is a big issue in our [ANC] region. Sarah Baartman is very much affected by it.”

Under discussion also would be the current interpretation of Radical Economic Transformation, he said.

We said they should sit down and resolve it, for the whole thing not to stifle service delivery