Ditsobotla Municipality has already been placed under intervention eight times and it still needs rescuing. At what point does a municipal crisis stop being a management problem and become a political one?

With qualified audits in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, more than R268 billion in unauthorized, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, and repeated findings from National Treasury and the Auditor-General, South Africa's local government crisis shows no signs of ending.

Why do failing municipalities keep getting new rescue plans instead of real accountability? And who ultimately pays the price for corruption, poor governance and political appointments?

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