This was revealed by ADM municipal manager Thandekile Mnyiba in an exclusive interview with the Dispatch Weekend Edition.
Mnyimba wants to decrease the R745m per year salary bill that has severely compromised service delivery.
"Our current structure is something else: bloated at the top and the people that are supposed to be actually doing the job are not there. We do not have artisans and we wonder why we can’t fix leaking pipes," he told the Dispatch newspaper.
Council is expected to give a verdict on the plan next month.
According to municipalities.co.za, the Amathole district municipality is a Category C municipality situated in the central part of the Eastern Cape. Key towns are Alice, Hogsback, Kei Mouth and Morgan Bay, Peddie, Stutterheim and Willowvale.
- Read the full story in the Dispatch Weekend Edition