The mayor of Musina, Nkhanedzeni Godfrey Mawela, encouraged the newly appointed municipal manager, Mr Nathi Tshiwanammbi, to steer the municipality towards achieving a clean audit opinion. This was during the welcome session for Tshiwanammbi that was held at the Musina Municipality Council Chambers on Monday, 3 October.

Tshiwanammbi was appointed as municipal manager for another five-year term after his first contract expired at the end of July this year. Tshiwanammbi’s new contract was effective from 3 October. During Tshiwanammbi’s absence, the current chief financial officer, Thomas Nephawe, acted as municipal manager.

On welcoming Tshiwanammbi back, Mawela said having Tshiwanammbi return to the municipality was a blessing. “We are happy to welcome someone who has worked here before. This means that our municipal manager knows our challenges and how local government operates. You don’t need to learn all the systems first as you will just be continuing from where you left off the last time. Your mandate as head of administration is to make sure that you implement our policies to further improve service delivery,” said Mawela.

Tshiwanammbi thanked the municipality for giving him another opportunity to realise his potential. “This clearly demonstrates that the municipality has trust in me, and I will perform my duties to the best of my ability. I am also happy that my work will be easier because the municipality has almost completed the process of filling three senior management positions, which had been vacant for a number of years,” Tshiwanammbi said.

Tshiwanammbi has been working at the Musina Municipality for the past 10 years as general manager for economic development and planning (five years) and municipal manager for another five years.