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FINANCE Minister Enoch Godongwana says they are ramping up efforts to intervene in 43 dysfunctional municipalities after he wrote to premiers in the affected provinces that National Treasury would take over the running of the municipalities.

Godongwana told Parliament this week, during the Budget vote for his department, that it would take over the running of 43 dysfunctional municipalities across the country.

“There are 43 municipalities that meet the criteria to be placed under mandatory intervention,” he said.

This comes after National Treasury took over the Enoch Mgijima municipality in the Eastern Cape and Mangaung in the Free State.

Enoch Mgijima was embroiled in controversy late last year after it emerged it spent R15 million on a shoddy sports field. This led the Hawks to intervene and start investigating the matter.

A few months ago, the government announced it was intervening in some of the dysfunctional municipalities.

The issue of dysfunctional municipalities has been on the agenda of government for years. |