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Ditsobotla Municipality head office building
The National Cabinet Representative at the embattled Ditsobotla Local Municipality, Kopung Ralikontsane, says more than 40 ghost worker contracts have been terminated.
The municipality previously conceded that it was overstaffed and attributed its bloated organogram partly to ghost workers.
The municipality was placed under national government administration in September last year.
Ralikontsane says the municipality’s employee headcount stands at about 400 workers, while the payroll reflects more than 700 employees.
“We have already dealt with the 48 people, we terminated those contracts, who were not in the municipality but yet having contracts. And we are busy finalising entire investigation, we are being assisted also by provincial CoGTA to revise the organogram. We need to have close to 450 workers, we have over 720 workers, so we are overstaffed,” Ralikontsane adds.
Meanwhile, the Save Ditsobotla Movement has called for the findings on ghost workers to be formally presented before council.
Movement representative Letlamoreng Mosiane says the community deserves transparency on the issue.
“The list of those ghost workers should be presented to council so that it becomes a public document so that the community of Ditsobotla should know that yes indeed there are ghost workers.”
“But we are only left with five months, and our term is coming to an end and council until today is yet to see that list of ghost workers.”
Investigations into staffing and payroll irregularities at the municipality are continuing.
Service delivery continues to suffer at Ditsobotla Local Municipality
