Municipal audits
Report lays bare the poor state of SA's municipalities
While the report notes the grim yearly findings of the Auditor-General in his inspection of municipal finance management, it calls for a legislative shift that...
Only one of the province’s 54 municipalities received a clean audit.
The organisation said it would encourage treasury to implement Section 216 of the Constitution to withhold equitable share to address financial misconduct.
Deputy Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Parks Tau said that a set of systematic issues needed to be resolved in the local government sphere to ensure better performance of municipalities.
Thirteen of the country's 20 municipalities to have received clean audits are in the Western Cape.
This has been attributed to departures from prescribed regulations a problem that has hogged municipal finances for some time.
However, this is also the first time that the AG’s office will exercise its new powers to act on corruption and the abuse of public finances.
Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato is happy about the assessment but said he remained worried about the city’s inefficiencies.
Gauteng Cooperative Governance MEC Lebogang Maile appointed a committee to investigate allegations of fraud, maladministration and corruption.
Gauteng Cooperative Governance MEC Lebogang Maile said the committee would investigate and act on corrupt activities.
The party's chair Kgosi Maepa addressed the media on Thursday on the state of affairs in the city and the recently released Auditor-General's report.
Despite the Auditor-General’s red-flagging the Drakenstein Municipality, the town said that it suffered no financial losses.
Municipality spokesperson Riana Geldenhuys said the non-compliance finding related to the expansion of two open tenders.
According to the Auditor-General's report, three out of the eight local councils in the area clocked up R150 million in authorised spending.
Western Cape Local Government MEC Anton Bredell said that the increased population growth has added pressure on municipal infrastructure.
While Cabinet has yet to deal with the Auditor-General’s report, Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu said its findings were worrying.
Auditor-General Kimi Makwethu on Wednesday revealed that only 18 of the country's 257 municipalities received clean audits in the 2017-18 financial year.
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu said that tenders worth nearly a billion rand were awarded to state officials in violation of the Municipal Financial Management Act.
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu has revealed the local government audit results for the 2017-2018 financial year.