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Strengths
Weaknesses
• No standard operating procedures for financial management.
• Misalignment of skills within the organisation.
• Inaccurate billing
• Lack of contracts management
• Inaccurate customer information’s database
• Failure to implement strategies, plans, policies, and
resolutions.
• Analysis and Follow-up is ineffective.
• Emergence of unethical conduct
• Lack of employee accountability and consequence
management.
• Media reactions are more reactive than proactive which
results in poor corporate image.
Opportunities
Threats
• Densification
• Access to an accredited laboratory
• A Disaster Management Centre facility is available and is
currently in use by the municipality.
• This facility will be upgraded and equipped to be utilized for
both Disaster Management Fire and Rescue Services.
• Bursary allocation to be aligned to critical skill (internally and
externally)
• Satellite university / tertiary institutions
• Alternative water sources
• Alternative energy
• Forging partnership with Private Sector (taking advantage of
available Corporate Social Investment)
• New innovative initiatives to address social ills
• Expansion of existing programmes to cover the whole district
• Potential for investment to enhance economic development
and revenue collection.
• Larger Urban areas to enhance revenue
• Support from National and Provincial treasury and CoGTA
• Technological Advancements
• Inter-Governmental Relations
• Local, National, and International
• Social Media platforms available for communication
• Tenure security
• Rural Population Outmigration
• Climate Change
• Compromised community health as regular inspections
cannot be conducted
• Disease outbreak
• Non-Development, update, and implementation of DMPs by
the local municipalities as the district plan should contain a
consolidation of all the local plans.
• The same will apply when the various sector departments
do not have their own disaster management plans in place which will create gaps in the capacity and readiness of the municipality and will leave the community vulnerable.
• Critical skills shortages
• High staff turnover
• Natural adversities such as droughts and flooding
• Urbanisation and rural population outmigration
• Immigration – the district is the Eastern Cape gateway to
KZN, the arrival of people seeking better opportunities often
further burdens the already stretched infrastructure.
• Non- cooperation from some Local Municipalities
• Social Inequality
• High Crime Rate
• High prevalence of HIV and Aids
• Social ills (Teenage pregnancy, drugs and substance abuse,
gender-based violence)
• Duplication of Efforts/Initiatives
• Gateway to Eastern Cape and eThekwini (inward migration)
put burden on social resources
• Financial management trainings are not specific to the
Treasury department.
• Under collection of revenue threatens cash flow.
• Non-performance of service providers
• Limited financial resources
• Volatile political environment
• Socio-Economic Environment (Poverty and unemployment)
3.9.13 Good Governance and Public Participation MEC Comments for the Term of IDP
Below is a table showing the MEC of CoGTA MEC comments for the IDP reviews and a summary of the AG findings for the period of the IDP 2017/18 to 2021/2021.
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