"SALGA briefed the Committee in the midst of national government’s scramble to save some municipalities from the losses they suffered from investing their equitable share allocations in VBS Mutual Bank.

While municipalities were warned well in advance about this – by the South African Reserve Bank, no less – the predicament speaks volumes of some council’s inability to generate their own viable capital to provide basic services or build infrastructure.

SALGA’s director for audit support, Mohammed Lorgat, told the Committee that true upward movement in allocations must take municipalities' capacity to generate revenue into account.

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