The Municipality tops the list of the best-performing municipalities in the KwaZulu-Natal province and has recently been confirmed to be in a good state of finances by the Auditor General.

The Greater Kokstad Municipality continues to maintain its position of being one of the country’s best-performing and financially viable municipalities.

The Municipality has recently been featured and announced to be among the four best-performing Municipalities in the KwaZulu-Natal province.

The declaration was made by the KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Department (CoGTA).

Evident to this, the Municipality has recently received an unqualified audit opinion from the Auditor General for 2023/2024, meaning the municipality's finances are stable and are in good health.

Different independent agencies also rated the Municipality for three consecutive years as the best performing and stable municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province and number four nationally in terms of functionality and being in good financial status previously.

Moreover, these achievements and accolades are attributed to the Greater Kokstad Municipality, which is not a grant-funded institution. The municipality sustains itself by delivering services to the people at the highest level through various revenue collection streams.

The Greater Kokstad Municipality Mayor, Councillor, MNL Madikizela was very delighted by the news saying, “This is through hard work with the rest of the team (officials) and councillors”.

He said the achievements are through a united council where in his Municipality they work as a team even with opposition parties.

“I say this boldly that this is not a partisan municipality, we work as a team with all parties,” he said.

The Greater Kokstad Municipality Municipal Manager, Mr Sipho Zwane echoed the Mayor’s sentiments saying “Nothing is impossible when working as a team and also thanked his officials for working tirelessly to ensure they are a better Municipality and giving confidence to communities that the taxpayers's money is in safe hands”.

He said they will continue using the taxpayer's money wisely and the door is wide open for those having elements of fraud and corruption and that as the municipality they will make sure that they face the music.

By Kamvalethu Xhelithole