ANC issues stern calls to Eastern Cape councillors on service delivery

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 The ANC's Eastern Cape provincial executive committee is working to turn around poor performing local governments which is giving the party a bad name.

The ANC called its councillors from all 45 local municipalities to a meeting in East London on Monday to address key challenges facing local government in the province, especially issues of instability and in fighting which is affecting service delivery.

ANC provincial chairperson, Pumulo Masualle, says the provincial executive committee is concerned at the state of affairs in local government in the Eastern Cape.

"If anybody makes a claim that local government does not work in the Eastern Cape the suggestion without being said is that the ANC in the province cannot provide effective leadership to local government and therefore the ANC cannot be trusted with leadership" he said.

Masualle said local government councillors must work to isolate those issues that gives the party a bad name.

He said the state of affairs has to be confronted head-on and that the ANC could leave the situation as it is.

Masualle said the ruling party must find ways to correct and make amends as speedily as possible.

"When they find a municipality that is in disarray it makes service delivery postponed. It is something we cannot afford, because we are undermining the ability to reverse the legacy of apartheid" he said.