{"id":89902,"date":"2025-09-15T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/anc-promises-intervention-in-underperforming-municipalities"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:01:38","slug":"anc-promises-intervention-in-underperforming-municipalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/anc-promises-intervention-in-underperforming-municipalities","title":{"rendered":"ANC Promises Intervention in Underperforming Municipalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The African National Congress (ANC)&#8217;s national leadership has promised &#8220;intervention&#8221; in some of the country&#8217;s underperforming municipalities where its members are deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of ANC councillors from across the country have gathered at the FNB Stadium in Soweto after the party issued a roll call of all its public representatives in municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>The councillors are expected to give a progress report of the municipalities they are deployed at and receive an action plan from the party&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The Goldrush Dome at the FNB Stadium is overflowing with ANC councillors from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC has more than 4,900 elected public representatives in local government &#8211; the most of any political party.<\/p>\n<p>The party&#8217;s secretary general, Fikile Mbalula, said some of their deployed members have not been performing to the required standard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Firing or not firing will depend on the reports that we have got and the evaluation we have done, in terms of our councillors. 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