Emfuleni municipality could not pay workers’ salaries after Eskom attached its bank accounts

The municipality is facing challenges to provide water, electricity and waste management services to residents. Sangweni attributed the municipality’s poor service delivery to residents’ failure to pay for services“Service delivery may not happen optimally because people need to understand they need to play their civic role and support the municipality. Though we have high unemployment rates in the municipality, some community members can afford to pay but they’re not paying.”“Services are taking place, but obviously not at the speed a paying customer would like. We’re doing…