Cash strapped
Due to bankruptcy and the collapse of service delivery, there are doubts that Msunduzi Municipality in Pietermaritzburg will fulfil its 2021 contract to fork out R27 million of ratepayers’ money to fund the Maritzburg United FC, which is desperate for funding.
While under administration since 2019 for failure to deliver services, the municipality signed an obligation to sponsor the KwaZulu-Natal capital city’s only Premier Soccer League (PSL) team, to be paid in tranches of R9m each year, over three years.
The city’s announcement of the sponsorship in 2021 attracted an
