One of the best ways to fix the dismal functioning and poor financial management in municipalities is by improving the skills and operations of finance officials at these institutions.
The incapabilities of municipalities which have led to the ever-decreasing performance of the local government institutions in the country especially in the Free State and North West provinces have now reached alarming stages which urgently need intervention from national government.

Even if police were to be successful in tracing the three teenage girls who went missing from their homes as far back as January (this year), the fact that the girls could have been victims of the escalating human trafficking in the country is very worrying and disturbing.

Leader of the inter-ministerial committee, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma literally put the matter to bed when she announced yesterday that the national government had now taken over the entire provincial administration of the North West government.
The national government instituted Section 100 and (b) of the Constitution to take full control of the entire North West province following months of protracted protest action which had made the province ungovernable with reports of wild looting of public finances emerging against Premier Supra Mahumapelo.

At the time of going to press yesterday (Wednesday) Mahikeng was again facing the possibility of wild rioting when Supra Mahumapelo’s supporters and those calling for his resignation clashed outside the venue where Mahumapelo was due to address the ANC’’s provincial executive committee (PEC) to announce his decision to resign from the provincial administration.