Government has introduced a performance-based reform programme aimed at improving service delivery in metropolitan municipalities, including electricity services, expected to unlock more than R100 billion in infrastructure investment.
The programme includes a R54 billion performance-based incentive grant with R27,7 billion allocated over the medium term.
Over the past decade, we have witnessed the steady erosion of municipal capabilities in many parts of the country: infrastructure failures, unreliable services, financial stress and declining public confidence, National Treasury Director-General Duncan Pieterse said during the launch on March 18.
