Municipalities incur staggering R26bn in irregular expenditure

In the Free State, Maluleke made mention of Maluti-a-Phofung municipality as one of those that did not submit financial statements.

“We’ve raised financial health concerns around the Free State local government sphere for many years, and we started to see over-reliance on consultants in the Free State a number of years ago. “This year, some of the things we’re seeing are late or non-submission of financial statements, which is worrying. For example, Maluti-a-Phofung is one of those audits where financial statements are simply not being submitted at all.

“Matjhabeng municipality, which was in the news in the past few weeks because of service delivery protests, is a municipality with a history of financial health challenges, and a history of supply chain management findings that go undealt with in terms of the requisite consequence management. “This year the municipality clocked debt to Eskom of R3.3bn. At the end of the year they owed Eskom R3.3bn but did not have cash to pay. They owed the Sedibeng water board R3.6bn. They have poor infrastructure for water services because they have not been maintaining that infrastructure, and as a consequence this year they reported water losses of R462m.”

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