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INDEPENDENT MUNICIPAL AND ALLIED TRADE UNION

SALGA EMT LEKGOTLA

3 February 2020

Let’s Get Local Government Working

Presented by: Keith Swanepoel President

OVERVIEW

• Status of Local Government
• Public Perception of Local Government
• Worker Ethic – Our Members
• IMATU’s Role

Municipal Suicide

• COGTA identified systemic problems:

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Corruption and theft

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Tender and procurement irregularities

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Lack of skills

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Municipalities increasingly dependent on grants

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Political interference in administration

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Perception of Local Government

• Non functional
• Ineffective
• Poorly managed
• Corruption
• Unable to deliver services
• Employees not delivering and not working
• Employees not responsive to needs of

communities

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North Ave from First to Fifth Fuller & Berea Fuller from Berea to Terrace Fuller & Berea

Cnr Liddle and Berea Road pothole on the sidewalk

The Curve cnr Observatory ave Storm water drain collapsed

• Liddle street and Berea Road
• Trench on the road

The Curve cnr Observatory Manhole cover missing

The Curve cnr Observatory Storm water drain collapsed Frances cnr Innes streets Storm water drain blocked The Curve cnr Observatory Storm water drain collapsed

Cnr Frederick & Kloof In Eckstein From Judith to Kloof Kloof & Frederick

Cnr Carse O’ Gowrie & Boundary road Cnr Claredon & Empire roads Cnr Junction & Queens streets

• Johannes and Nourse streets
• Johannes and Nourse streets
• Nourse and Hillier streets
• Nourse and Hillier streets

Worker Ethics

• IMATU, as a representative of workers,

needs to ensure that a paradigm shift takes place in respect of service delivery

• Employees (our members) at municipalities

need to focus

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service delivery and productivity

• Members should embrace and promote a

climate for quality service delivery

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Worker Ethics

• Keep to working hours
• Members

should identify and report infrastructure collapse

• Multi

disciplinary approach in work methodology

• The appointment of contractors and sub-

contractors for municipal service delivery should be opposed

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BAD BUILDINGS

ICONIC BUILDING

• Plein street
• Plein street

• Wanderers btwn Plein and

De Villiers

• Wanderers btwn Anderson

and De Villiers

• KING GEORGE AND

BOK(WASTE)

Worker Ethics

• Municipal services to be rendered through

full time municipal employees

• Training:

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Focus on improving service delivery levels

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Aimed at developing career paths

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Aimed at developing/retaining skills

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Worker Ethics

• Abuse of performance management

systems abused by management to be rooted out

• Compliance with the regulatory financial

framework a must in all municipalities

• The available service delivery budget must

be evenly spent during any financial year

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Worker Ethics

• Dumping
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available funds (unspent budget allocations) at financial year end

• Monthly

expenditure against service delivery imperatives

• Wasteful expenditure to be exposed
• Municipal employees are public servants who

need to focus on service delivery

• Emphasis should be on uplifting the poorest of the

poor

• Personal interests hamper service delivery

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Worker Ethics

• Drastic improvement in service delivery

levels/productivity required in all municipalities

• Dramatic improvement in financial

management and expenditure

• Sustainability of our sector, as an

independent sphere of government, threatened

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Worker Ethics

• How achieved:

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Increased productivity

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Municipal employees being accessible and responsive to the needs

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communities

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Changing public perception

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• Pothole in the road, Market

& Commissioner streets

• Pothole in the road, Market

& Commissioner Streets

• Pothole, Wanderers and

Noord streets (the Bridge)

• Pothole Wanderers and

Noord streets

• Pretoria & Van Der Merwe

streets

• Queens & Kotze streets

IMATU’s Role

• Fill vacant positions
• Oppose fixed term contracts
• Oppose appointment of contractors
• Oppose privatisation

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IMATU’s Role

• Protect

members making protected disclosures

• Expose

corruption and protect the anonymity of members

• Oppose job shedding
• Protect the status of municipalities as an

independent sphere of government

• IMATU does not support “Single Public

Service” initiatives

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IMATU’s Role

• The effect of Corruption and other criminal

activities (including tender and procurement irregularities):

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Threatens independence of our sector

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Threatens the continued employment and job security of members

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Will lead to service delivery failures

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IMATU’s Role

• Members should understand the need to

improve service delivery in order:

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for local government to remain an independent sphere of government

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to play a meaningful role in bargaining processes

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IMATU’s Role

• Appreciate that local government is at the

coal face of service delivery in our country

• Our obligation is to assist government with

job creation and poverty alleviation

• Strife for the delivery of affordable, quality

and universally accessible municipal services

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IMATU’s Role

• Our

members should realise that an improvement in service delivery will ensure continued employment

• Failure in service delivery will inevitably lead

to losses in membership

• We should work together to improve service

delivery so as to ensure job security for our members

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THE NEED FOR IMATU LEADERSHIP TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE

• This is one of the symptoms when we do not

do our work properly

The End

Questions: Keith Swanepoel

Telephone Number: (011) 403 3826 Facsimile Number : (011) 339 6265 keith@imatu-jhb.co.za johan@imatu.co.za

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