The provincial ANC is reportedly considering merging Ditsobotla with surrounding municipalities after the 2026 local government elections if ongoing provincial interventions fail to resolve the municipality’s financial and governance crises. 

Salga provincial chairperson, Khumalo Molefe, expressed serious concerns, warning that dissolving Ditsobotla would not solve its problems but simply shift them elsewhere.

“Ditsobotla remains an economic cornerstone of the district. Disestablishing it would be like transferring a cancer – it won’t remove the problem,” Molefe said.

Ditsobotla has long suffered from political instability, corruption, service delivery failures, and financial mismanagement, with debts exceeding R2 billion.

In 2023, Mayor Boitumelo Lethoko told the provincial Standing Committee on Public Accounts that the municipality had a zero balance in its bank account, rendering it incapable of providing even basic services like toilet paper.

The municipal council was dissolved more than two years ago due to continued governance failures and was only reconstituted after the ANC lost its majority in by-elections in December 2022.

Salga maintains that instead of disestablishment, the focus should be fixing governance structures and enforcing accountability.

OFM News/Kekeletso Mosebetsi mvh