Cape Town is the only metro that received a clean audit in the 2015-16 local government audit report. Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu, releasing the outcomes of the annual report on Wednesday in Pretoria, said there were marginal improvements from 2014-15. Makwetu said metro and district municipalities "should be leading by example" but that only Cape Town and 14 district municipalities had received clean audits. The metros are seen as the main drivers of SA’s economy. The highest number of clean audits was in the Western Cape, with 80% the municipalities. KwaZulu-Natal obtained clean audits in 18% of its municipalities, followed by the Eastern Cape, at 16%. Midvaal, governed by a majority DA government, was the only municipality in Gauteng to obtain a clean audit. Forty — or 82% — of the municipalities with clean audit opinions in the 2014-15 financial year obtained this outcome again in 2015-16. Johannesburg remained stagnant — with an unqualified opinion with findings — due to a num...
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