Early Breakfast with Africa Melane
Oct 23, 2026 · 9 min · 7 segments
Africa Melane will speak to Governance Expert, Dr Sam Koma, about the revised White Paper on Local Government and its proposed reforms to municipal funding, service delivery, financial management and…
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The Finance Minister on Wednesday during the delivery of the medium term budget policy statement made reference to conditional grants that will be distributed to municipalities.

I think everybody agrees that the current funding model for local municipalities is not ideal.
Africa, the whole issue of the need to reform the funding model or the funding formula of municipalities is on the table.
Because these municipalities, they're not at the same level in terms of economic base, in terms of revenue base, but also in terms of institutional capacity.
Not all the metros are able to generate sufficient revenue to be able to fulfill the needs, the aspirations and demands of local municipalities.
And also the same applies to our local municipalities and the district municipalities.
And that is the reason the Minister of Finance, Mr. Kodongwan, has now proposed that there should be an overhaul around the funding model that applies to municipalities.

The Finance Minister on Wednesday during the delivery of the medium term budget policy statement made reference to conditional grants that will be distributed to municipalities.

I think everybody agrees that the current funding model for local municipalities is not ideal.
Africa, the whole issue of the need to reform the funding model or the funding formula of municipalities is on the table.
Because these municipalities, they're not at the same level in terms of economic base, in terms of revenue base, but also in terms of institutional capacity.
Not all the metros are able to generate sufficient revenue to be able to fulfill the needs, the aspirations and demands of local municipalities.
And also the same applies to our local municipalities and the district municipalities.
And that is the reason the Minister of Finance, Mr. Kodongwan, has now proposed that there should be an overhaul around the funding model that applies to municipalities.
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