This was after the auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke this week tabled the 2022-2023 report on the local government audit outcomes
Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke says the trend of poor audit outcomes in local government continued, with with only 34 of municipalities obtaining clean audits.MUNICIPALITIES continue to fail to improve and progress after the auditor-general reported that only 13% which is 34 out of 247 of them received a clean audit.
Maluleke called on all roleplayers in the accountability ecosystem to work deliberately and with urgency toward a culture of performance, accountability, transparency and institutional integrity to ultimately result in a better life for the people of South Africa. She added that these municipalities had made little effort to move out of this category, with 77 remaining there since the end of the previous administration’s term.
Although an estimated R924.1 million have been recovered for 2022-2023, Maluleke said the number of municipalities that submitted their financial statements by the legislated date continued to increase from the low submission rate of 81% in 2020-2021 to 91% in 2021-2022 and 94 in 2022-2023. She added that poor financial management remained prevalent and that most municipalities lost revenue because they were not billing and collecting due to water and electricity losses as a result of infrastructure neglect. She said these municipalities were also not careful with their spending practices.
Maluleke added that when municipalities do not properly manage their performance, finance and infrastructure, it directly affects the delivery of key government projects that were intended to improve the lives of South Africans.
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