Some councillors in DA-led municipalities in the Western Cape are understood to be against the party advocating withdrawal of councils from the South African Local Government Association (Salga). The DA has threatened to quit Salga if the association does not do its work in strict compliance with the Constitution and Public Finance Management Act. Failing this it would withdraw all of its Western Cape municipalities as member councils. Salga is an association of local government leaders and a bargaining representative between municipalities and their employees. The DA has bemoaned what it calls Salga’s partisan tendencies and said it had put the association on notice for a withdrawal of its councils if its demands were not met. However, a source — who asked not to be named due to not being authorised to speak on the matter — told Business Day that councillors of George Local Municipality, Swartland Local Municipality, Eden District Municipality and Cape Town Metropolitan Municipalit...
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