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‘Municipal staff chaos’ MONIQUE BASSON
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OT only is the Kouga Municipality’s staff management in chaos, but half of its employees have been appointed illegally.
This according to DA MP Elza van Lingen. According to Van Lingen, for the past 16 months the Kouga Municipality lacks an official organogram which is required by law to legally appoint staff. On December 1, 2011 the organogram was withdrawn at a Kouga Council meeting and even through the selection processes of the municipal manager and the five directors last year, the Kouga Municipality still has no organogram. The DA took this matter to court at the end of last year. “In our court documents (DA vs Kouga Council) - tabled first to the High Court in Port Elizabeth and now in the SCA in Bloemfontein - it is stated that Council tabled an organogram on November 1, 2011,” said Van Lingen. “On December 1 Council rescinded the adoption of the organogram as tabled a month earlier. The documents clearly stated that Kouga would therefore be without an organogram. This recall of the organogram was therefore approved by Council on December 1, 2011. “According to the Municipal Systems Act, each municipality must have its own organogram or staff establishment. No person may be appointed in a municipality unless the post to which he/she is appointed, is provided for in the organogram of that municipality. A de-
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cision to employ a person in a municipality, and any contract concluded between the municipality and that person in consequence of the decision is null and void if the appointment was made in contravention of the Municipal Systems Act.” According to municipal spokesperson, Laura-Leigh Randall, the municipality originally adopted its organogram in 2002, while the previous council adopted a new organogram in 2010. “Following his appointment, Municipal
Manager Sydney Fadi reviewed the new organogram and found it to be budget-heavy and recommended that it be rescinded, which council then did. “The implication is that all employees would occupy positions as reflected in the 2002 organogram until a new cost-reflective organogram is adopted.” Van Lingen said: “Fadi had no right to take such decisions on behalf of a council and which are in contravention of the Municipal
Systems Act. The time has come for him to adhere to the law and stop trying to run Kouga recklessly. “The DA challenges Fadi to submit a staff establishment for each directorate to a Kouga Council meeting within the next three months and before the end of this financial year as at June 30, 2013. “We as the DA will hold him liable for any appointments he makes without council approval of an approved staff establishment.”
Agricultural mentorship programme benefits community A flagship project of the Cacadu District Municipality is setting the benchmark high with regard to agricul tural growth in rural areas of South Africa. The Agricultural Mentorship Programme of the Cacadu District Municipality is the first of its kind and the only one that is being rolled out at District level in South Africa. The Agricultural Benefiting from the success ful agricultural mentorship programme of the Cacadu District Municipality is Lamoney from the Lamoney Family Trust in Ndlambe. See page 5 for the full article. PHOTO:SUPPLIED
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