Managers across City of Johannesburg units have been instructed to take serious measures to ensure their expenditure is within budget and that money does not go back to National Treasury at the end of the financial year. An internal memo seen by TimesLIVE, which was issued this week by Kiran Ramkissoon‚ deputy director, creditors and payroll‚ directed finance managers in Joburg what to do as the city tries to keep its finances in order. The memo flows from an instruction from the city manager Ndivhoniswani Lukhwareni to reduce expenditure in line with the actual revenue performance. "Please note, as per the instruction 2(c)‚ where no current commitment exists on line items identified through the expenditure review process‚ no further expenditure should be incurred on these line items for the remainder of the year‚" the memorandum read. It then listed the line items‚ which include engagement of consultants; travel and subsistence; domestic hotel accommodation; vehicle hire; credit ca...
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