All welcome to see Nelson Mandela Bay’s mayoral committee in action
NELSON Mandela Bay Metro mayoral committee meetings would be open to the public and media, mayor Athol Trollip announced on Monday. The move is meant to promote transparency and accountability.The first open meeting was held in September and the next is scheduled to take place on October 12 in the City Hall council chambers, with subsequent meetings taking place every second Wednesday in the same venue.Trollip said that under ANC-led administrations, these meetings were closed, "meaning that residents and the media were locked out of holding the mayoral committee and government to account"."It was this closed-door policy that allowed the former administration under Danny Jordaan and his mayoral committee member for budget and treasury to claim that all was well in financial administration, when in actual fact they had plunged the municipality into financial insecurity with growing creditor and debtor lists, more and more write-offs of bad debt, and diminishing revenue returns," said...
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