The newly established JB Marks municipality says the funds for the process of amalgamation have dried up. The municipality now intends on requesting additional funding.
The North West municipality comprises of former Ventersdorp and Tlokwe municipalities.
The decision to amalgamate the two municipalities was taken by the then Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Pravin Gordhan.
Gordhan said Ventersdorp municipality was unable to perform its Constitutional obligations, as it was not financially viable.
JB Marks mayoral spokesperson Victor Boqo says the municipalities have used up R13 million as part of the amalgamation process.
“There was money allocated for these two municipalities to an amount of R13 million, that was used to run all the process of amalgamation like to re-brand the new municipality. So now that money is finished, we must now as the municipality we must write again to national to submit a new business plan so that we embark on the second process of running the amalgamation,” says Boqo.
