Finance Minister warns metros face institutional restructuring to overcome deep financial distress

Johannesburg and Tshwane Metros will have to re-structure their municipalities if they are to be sustainable.

Minister of Finance, Enoch Gondongwana, has detailed the dire state of the finances of the two Metros, which face some of the lowest infrastructure, construction and maintenance budgets in the country.

The two metros are struggling to provide basic services, and maintain public infrastructure.

SABC News senior politics reporter Samkelo Maseko filed this report.


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