2012/08-August 2012 - City of uMhlathuze

Councillors attend Risk Management training
The National Department of Treasury
visited the City of uMhlathuze at the
beginning of August to present Risk
Management training to councillors. The
interactive session was aimed at equipping
them will the skills to better identify key
risks and obstacles that threaten the
objectives of the Municipality as well as
to design and implement measures to
manage the risks to acceptable levels.
“Risk Management is about seeing a
problem coming and being able to take
steps to minimise that problem rather than
waiting for it arrive and then trying to
manage the problem. Using Risk
Management properly will take the
eNseleni mall developers request another extension
LST Investments, the company developing the eNseleni
shopping mall, has been invited to address the City
Development Portfolio Committee on the reasons for the
continuous delays with the project.
This follows a request to Council to grant a further extension
of time of 18 months to finalise the acquisition of privately
owned properties and Township Establishment procedures.
The company concluded a Sale Agreement in August 2007
and when the period granted to fulfil their Suspensive Conditions
lapsed they were granted with further extensions on various
occasions. The last extension lapsed in January 2012.
The subdivision and rezoning was approved by Exco in
November 2011. The consolidation was approved by Exco in
Municipality to a new level,” encouraged
Phukuile Masudubele, one of the trainers.
Risk Management is everyone’s
responsibility with the Municipality. Council,
as the executive authority, is responsible
for establishing Risk Management and
ensuring the effective functioning thereof.
The Municipal Manager, as the Accounting
Officer, is accountable for the overall
governing of Risk Management and
setting an appropriate tone within the
organisation. Management and officials
at the various levels are responsible for
Risk Management issues in their daily
activities, such as ensuring that they lock
their offices when they leave.
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The benefits of effective Risk Management
for the City include better allocation of
scarce resources through prioritisation,
improved service delivery and achieving
municipal targets.
Course presenters Bheki Gutshwa, Phukuile Masudubele and Rudzani Funzani from National Treasury with Shaylene Adonis, the
Municipality’s Chief Human Resources Officer: SHE Risk Management and some of the councillors who attended the training session.
February 2012, however, an approved Surveyor-General
diagram of the consolidated properties will only be issued
once all the properties are under one ownership.
The closure of the street application was forwarded to the
Department of Cooperative Governance in August 2011 and
is still awaiting approval.
Therefore, the Township Establishment procedure has
been finalised except for the consolidation of properties. This
process is being delayed because the properties with different
ownership cannot be consolidated.
Five of the eight properties involved in the development
are still privately owned. Currently there are delays winding
up the assets for one property of the deceased estate.