ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbaluka said the party will introduce new measures to monitor the work done by its councilors at local government while speaking on the sidelines of the two-day ANC Local Government Interventions Workshop in Boksburg.
The government intervention workshop aims to aid ailing municipalities and the workshop was to address pressing issues facing the local government, Mbalula said adding that they’ll clamp down on possible corruption.
“Projects can only succeed when proper qualified engineers, project managers, finance managers and so forth are appropriately appointed. There is no excuse for not spending money for what is budgeted for whilst our people are in the dire need of the services.
“We are introducing the barometer. It is going to tell us what we need to know in the war room as the ANC. Where is the money being allocated, where are the projects that are supposed to be implemented, it will tell us where are the leaks, where is work being done, where is work not being done.
“This word intervention is not new to South Africa, iIt must be coupled with the work being done, monitoring our councilors in the commitments that we have made in the process to ensure there is transparency to citizens ,” he said.
Mbalula said President Cyril Ramaphosa will on 19 August reveal the party’s plans for the 2024 National General Elections.
“At Jabulani Theatre in Soweto we will reveal our program in our manifesto review from the past five years. The President of the ANC will unveil what it is the ANC has done, how far we’ve gone in implementing let’s build South Africa together from 2019 when we came into power,” he said.
