There will be no bonuses or salary increases for employees at municipalities that perform poorly in KwaZulu-Natal, the province’s MEC for co-operative governance and traditional affairs, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, said on Wednesday. She was reacting to the release of the 2016-17 municipal audit outcomes by Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu, who painted a bleak picture of the financial situation of municipalities in the country. In the 2016-17 financial year‚ KwaZulu-Natal municipalities received seven unqualified audits with no other findings‚ 33 unqualified audits with findings‚ 10 qualified audits‚ two adverse audit opinions and two audit disclaimers. But Dube-Ncube said that despite an overall regression‚ the province had retained its position as the second-best-performing province in SA. The province’s Operation Bounce Back was a strategy to reverse the latest audit regression in its 54 municipalities. It placed a premium on consequence management by penalising poor performance.
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