She says out of nearly 260 municipalities, there has been an increase in clean audits, with 27 maintaining their clean audit status, 14 achieving a clean audit for the first time, and six losing their clean audit status.However, presenting the local government audit outcomes for the 2020/21 financial year in Pretoria, Maluleka said just 41 of the municipalities or 16% have received a clean audit over the last year.
The Auditor-General added that the Free State had no clean audits and pointed to a collapse in local government.Gauteng saw two clean audits and the Western Cape had the highest amount of clean audits at 22. “If we look at KwaZulu-Natal, our view is that much work is required to institutionalise, preventative controls and consequence management in KZN. Limpopo, that province has seen the greatest improvement over the last five years.”
“Much of it is due to the tone that was set by the provincial government. The province has also benefited a great deal from the coordinated effort by the provincial treasury, working together with the provincial Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs ,” adds Maluleke.
As long as there is a high unemployment rate municipalities will not perform, how do you expect them to create revenue. You have been set up for failure and you going to fail, neo-liberal policies are not meant to benefit the natives.
Wow nice picture
what is the issue with municipalities, I know of looting of funds, but are oir CFO's not doing their job or not qualified, what are root causes
Deploy more cadres is the answer. The tragedy is that these people don't even have the most basic skills such as arithmetic, yet they are in charge of complex institutions. Keep them out of private institutions.
What is the spread on DA, ANC etc.. on the Audits..have a suspicion that the DA runs a bit of an cleaner Government