The deputy president responded to MPs' questions in the National Assembly on Friday.
The deputy president said he had visited several municipalities, including Emfuleni Local Municipality in to assess service delivery failures since his appointment earlier this year.
“The ANC is on the ground and dealing with these issues… We are intervening and I’m confident that we are going to improve service delivery on the ground,” Mashatile continued.Mashatile revealed that 66 municipalities were dysfunctional, but stressed that the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs was taking action to address their challenges, which are a result of political instability, poor governance and financial management.
He, however, said parties needed to work together to improve service delivery and that “finger pointing does not work”.“The nation’s success is far greater than the narrow interests of individuals and political parties so let’s work together.”Meanwhile, Mashatile said a framework for coalitions was in the the works to address the instability at a local government level.
The deputy president further denied the suggestion by United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa that the ANC supported of election thresholds in order to “throttle” smaller parties.“It was really to set up a benchmark that is acceptable in terms of how we do work going forward. I know that General [Holomisa] you were among those who were very sceptical of this threshold. I think at some point you said this is the machination of the ANC and DA to try and throttle us.
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