Gauteng municipalities regressed from providing good quality financial statements to only two municipalities obtaining and sustaining clean audit opinions.
Preventative controls and fast consequence management are needed in Gauteng municipalities because it is not at a level where it would improve their audit outcomes. The province’s municipalities have been characterised by a decline in audit outcomes compared to the first two years of the previous administration’s term.
The Auditor-General of South Africa’s acting business unit leader for Gauteng, Dorothy Rampopo, says the institutionalising of these controls and enforcement of timeous consequence management in municipalities should be improved. The provincial treasury has also committed to conducting internal audit reviews at municipalities, training supply chain management officials and municipal public accounts committee members, and intensifying support to struggling municipalities.
“Councils and municipal public accounts committees must hold municipal managers accountable so that funds are used to enable quality basic service delivery.” “It is of great concern that material corrections on fixed assets had to be made in the submitted financial statements. Our call is that municipalities need to ensure that expenditure on consultants is done prudently with adequate monitoring, including ensuring that there are adequate skills transfer from consultants to officials.”
The City of Johannesburg and the City of Tshwane incurred a combined R3,82 billion in irregular expenditure, while City Power incurred R1,03 billion . These amounts represent 5%, 19% and 20% respectively of these auditees’ adjusted total capital and operational budgets .“Irregular expenditure increases the risk of funds meant for service delivery being misused.
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