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While Gauteng and Western Cape have the two best-run municipalities, the North West and Free State provinces are leading when it comes to dysfunctional ones, with their councils failing to deliver services, honour third-party payments or pay worker salaries. Wasteful expenditure, poor governance and instability are the order of the day at most municipalities across the country, as detailed in Auditor-General reports. The ailing municipalities often appoint unqualified individuals, leading to unnecessary costs as they hire expensive consultants to prepare annual financial statements. Eight poor performers in North West Councils are worsening and are nearing collapse in the North West,…
