Auditor-General Highlights Stagnation in Municipal Audit Outcomes

Auditor-General sounds alarm on dire financial state of SA’s biggest cities

Of South Africa’s eight metros, only Cape Town was given a clean bill of health by the AG in her latest report on local government outcomes.

Auditor-general exposes municipal meltdown – The Mail & Guardian

Auditor general Tsakani Maluleke has delivered a damning indictment on the state of municipal finances and lack of accountability, manifested in crumbling service delivery. This is despite an uptick in the number of clean audit reports for the 2023-24 financial year. Maluleke painted a dire picture of the widespread poor quality of financial reporting and mismanagement in a briefing to parliament’s cooperative governance portfolio committee on l…

Little has changed in chaotic local government, auditor-general says

Municipal finances have been severely harmed but mayors, councils and municipalities show little fiscal discipline, says Tsakani Maluleke

Auditor-General highlights stagnation in municipal audit outcomes

AG once again paints bleak picture of municipalities' audit outcomes - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke has made an impassioned plea that governance failures at municipal level should be dealt with, in an effort to improve audit outcomes of municipalities. Maluleke briefed Parliament’s Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Portfolio Committee on the 2023-2024 Consolidated General Report on Local Government Audit Outcomes. She again painted a grim picture, with only 41 out of 257 municipalities getting clea…

Auditor general assesses local government spending

The state's auditor general has found gaps and weaknesses in several metropolitan local governments’ management of corporate credit cards.