The Bushbuckridge Local Municipality council in Mpumalanga decided to write off R182 million in irregular, unauthorised fruitless and wasteful expenditure because it had not been getting good opinions from the Auditor-General
The ANC-led council decided to write off the amount last month because it had not been getting good opinions from the Auditor-General .
It should be noted that the municipality was given value for money and that there is tangible evidence that the municipality put taxpayers’ money to good use Unauthorised expenditure is done when there was no budget for such a project or there was overspending, while fruitless and wasteful expenditure occurs when payment is made in vain and could have been avoided if an official exercised care.
Bushbuckridge municipal spokesperson Claiton Khosa insisted that the municipality lost nothing in the transactions on which the AG raised red flags.
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