@duna_le@shufflesdu The BELA bill is a brainchild of Panya Panya to wrestle away SGB powers on language policy and admissions but was deferred to Regulations due to Afriforum fight back. He wanted to address GDE online failures by changing law
@pinkykhoabane Electricity and water revenue is used for other Municipality non revenue generating functions. Its not ring-fenced. The revenue is also used to plug the gap of wasteful expenditures. We need a complete change to the current budgeting practices
@pinkykhoabane I'm yet to get an immediate alternative solution though...as things stand, LG has no capacity to deliver the services. This is exacerbated by lack of political will to implement consequence management π€
@pinkykhoabane π― hence the debate about bringing in the private sector to inject new money to plug the gap but we have to accept there are no free lunches...we have to think differently now.
@pinkykhoabane You're asking the right questions except that LCG already has a backlog. The current plans and budgets are already not near the current population they're supposed services