DA Northern Cape says government must account for municipal financial collapse [ SOUND]

# The DA in the Northern Cape says the provincial and local governments must now account for continued fiscal chaos at municipal level, culminating in the National Treasury’s decision to withhold equitable share payments to eleven municipalities in the province. The party’s Gizella Opperman says it is not the first time that debt-ridden municipalities, defaulting on payments owed to service providers, face these fiscal consequences for persistent financial mismanagement: