This week, the National Treasury (NT) warned the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) to pay outstanding staff pension fund contributions within seven days to avoid further action.
Emfuleni is one of 39 municipalities in the country guilty of the malpractice of failing to pay staff pension fund contributions.
In Emfuleni’s case, the Municipality has withheld over R6,5 million in pension fund contributions, keeping the funds in its own coffers instead of transferring them to the relevant fund.
Additionally, the NT also warned Emfuleni to settle its historical debt of R1,7 billion with Rand Water.
Should Emfuleni fail to comply, the national government will withhold its equitable share for the remainder of the 2025/26 financial year.
The NT’s drastic steps against Emfuleni come as no surprise to the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) seeing as the Municipality is an utter failure.
Not even four years under the Gauteng provincial government’s administration has made any positive difference.
Eskom and Rand Water have repeatedly attached the Municipality’s accounts, causing residents to pay their outstanding electricity and water bills directly to the bulk suppliers.
The Freedom Front Plus will keep pressuring the Municipality to pay the outstanding contributions so that officials do not forfeit their pension fund benefits.
The mismanagement of the Emfuleni Local Municipality has to stop. It is an utter disgrace that the Municipality is not only failing to provide basic services to its residents, but is also misappropriating staff pension fund contributions.
The only way to stop the mismanagement is to oust the ANC government at the polls.
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Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”