Officials of the auditor-general’s office auditing the financial statements of eThekwini metropolitan municipality have apparently received death threats. The auditor-general’s office took the unprecedented decision this week to withdraw its audit team from the eThekwini municipality in response to the death threats. This decision was communicated to the municipality in a letter to deputy city manager Phillip Sithole‚ written by Ntombifuthi Mhlongo of the auditor-general’s office in Pietermaritzburg on Monday. The chairman of Parliament’s standing committee on the auditor-general, Vincent Smith, said on Friday that he was "was extremely concerned" to hear reports of the death threats. "The threats are a direct affront to good governance and to the spirit of the Constitution," he said in a statement. The committee has called on the municipality’s political leadership to assist the auditor-general officials to get the documentation they need to do their work. "It is both unfortunate a...
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