The Department of Cooperative Governance CoGTA has appointed a 10-person multidisciplinary task team to be deployed in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Eastern Cape, to strengthen governance, fix failing systems, and help restore basic service delivery .
The intervention comes as the National Treasury has threatened to withhold R546 million in equitable share funding, unless the municipality acts on more than R30 billion in historic unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
CoGTA says the ten-member task team, appointed under Section 154 of the Constitution, includes specialists in financial management, internal audit, and engineering experts to tackle failing infrastructure.
