PROVINCIAL AUDIT OUTCOMES: 70% expenditure failure in KZN municipalities depicts ‘culture of tolerance for transgressions’ – and that’s before the floods and riots

Fifty-one municipalities were found to be not complying with various aspects of the legislation that governs municipalities, such as the Municipal Finance Management Act, while 30 had broken procurement and contract legislation. Of the 54 municipalities, 38 had failed to rein in irregular expenditure.

Four district municipalities – Amajuba, Ugu, uMzinyathi and Uthukela – received qualified opinions, while uMkhanyakude received a disclaimer – the worst audit outcome for a municipality. The rural towns of Mtubatuba, Hluhluwe, Mkuze, Jozini, Kwangwanase and Ingwavuma fall under this rural northern municipality.KwaZulu-Natal has, according to Maluleke, a serious problem with supply chain management and poor record-keeping, and has “created a culture of tolerance for transgressions”.

It is a position the province has held for the better part of six years, with overall municipal performance having stagnated since a high of the 2016/17 financial year.Dr Sanele Gumede, a lecturer in economics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, toldthat in principle the province’s poorly performing municipalities would lead to a poor economic outlook, and that without municipalities driving economic growth, economic prospects in the province would continue to suffer.

“If we look at the province as a whole, we have really struggled to grow, not only over the past few years, but at least over the past decade. Furthermore, if you look at what rural municipalities have contributed to the provincial economy over the past five years, you can see it is not much at all.”

Said Maluleke: “District municipalities with qualified opinions continued to struggle with basic financial management.

Irregular expenditure is legal in SA. So next year it will be even worse.

How's EC

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'At the heart of the problem lies no consequence management, poor financial controls & inexperienced officials who rely on consultants for the most basic tasks. None of this is new to KwaZulu-Natal or most other municipalities in South Africa'. - Since 1995 that is.

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Does not matter according to many.. Clean audits don't equate to service delivery to the poor.

A point to note a lot of these municipalities are run by the IFP. In terms of corruption IFP is ANC on steroids.

Where are the figures

Start talking about anc cadres stealing, and I'd buy your paper thing. I'm sick of this soft language.

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