13 September 2013
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GTM’s sinking ship Last week we reported exclusively on a number of critical problems facing the GTM. Today we can pull the curtain back a bit more, to reveal more staggering shortfalls in the GTM’s seemingly hopeless financial situation. The GTM needs about R36 million just to get the cash flow back to non-critical levels; Eskom was owed R38 million by the end of last month and the GTM only managed to pay the power supplier a measly R16 million; The GTM is still shy of R14 million payable to contractors; Equally the GTM is in arrears to creditors,
The Greater Tzaneen Municipality is on the verge of collapsing into a bankrupt local government, and a miracle is needed to get the GTM back on track — unless the central government comes to the rescue the tune of about R9 million; Pay as you Earn (PAYE) tax that was deducted from staff for August, has not been paid over to SARS by the deadline, clearly due to a lack of sufficient cash flow. Another looming crisis is the neglect to stock up on transformers or to make provision for the coming summer — most notably transformers being struck by lightning.
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Transformers are not available off the shelf and require special orders that could take up to three weeks to be delivered. According to our sources, there is not a single transformer in stock in the GTM’s magazine, since the money to buy transformers have dried up. Residents could be in for serious interruptions in the power supply. In the mean time in-fighting amongst
councillors of the majority party (ANC) seems to cause delays in urgent decision making. A group in the council wants the mayor to be recalled. There is also talk of the ANC’s whip to be replaced, since he is accused of having had an interest in a company that was allocated the tender for the upgrading of Claude Wheatley Street. The tender was rescinded after a Supreme Court interdict had been obtained by another contractor who lost out after the initial, unlawful awarding of the tender by the GTM. — Francois Aucamp
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Daar is net geen einde aan die Mediclinic Tzaneen se groei en vooruitgang nie. Nog voor die Mediclinic Tzaneen hul tiende verjaarsdag kon vier, het die honderd duisendste (!) pasiënt vir mediese sorg kom aanmeld. Me Annette McLardy van Hoedspruit staan hier by (links) me Marlize Delport (die hospitaal se netwerkbemarkingsbestuurder) en dr Gert van der Merwe (algemene sjirurg). ‘n Maklike sommetjie beteken dus dat die hospitaal in hul eerste dekade gemiddeld tien duisend pasiënte per jaar toegelaat het. Dié syfer lyk egter deesdae baie anders, omdat die hospitaal se opnames in die eerste jaar of drie heelwat minder was. Daar was toe nie die verskeidenheid spesialiste nie en die geriewe was ook baie meer beperk. Die Mediclinic-hoofkantoor ag Tzaneen as een van die grootste suksesverhale van die groep se kleiner hospitale.
week: FET vier 10 jaar!
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