Cosatu concerned about rising number of municipalities battling to pay staff [SOUND]

# Cosatu says the rising number of municipalities battling to pay staff, including pension funds, or provide basic services to residents, requires drastic interventions to stabilise and rebuild local government. Municipal debt owed to Eskom is sitting at around 94-billion-rand. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks, says they are concerned about community debt owed to municipalities nearing 300-billion-rand: