ActionSA calls on premier Lesufi to place Emfuleni under mandatory administration [SOUND]

# ActionSA in Gauteng is calling on premier Panyaza Lesufi and provincial Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Jacob Mamabolo to place the Emfuleni Local Municipality under mandatory administration with the full oversight of National Treasury. ActionSA’s Zwelithini Mtshali says despite years of oversight failures and incomplete interventions under Section 139, Emfuleni has deteriorated into a full-blown crisis with 7.1-billion-rand owed to Eskom and escalating debt to Rand Water has rendered the municipality financially insolvent: