Auditor-general urges municipalities to get their house in order
Professionalising local government will go long way in cleaning up the rot, Tsakani Maluleke tells Salga meeting
07 August 2024 - 14:31
UPDATED 07 August 2024 - 15:42
Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke has chastised the country’s mayors and speakers for failing to transform municipalities into accountable and transparent institutions, and called for professionals to do the job.
Speaking during an inaugural two-day national joint sitting of council of mayors and speakers in Polokwane, organised by the SA Local Government Association (Salga), the employer body representing the country’s 257 municipalities, she said municipalities had yet to build institutional capabilities to deliver on their constitutional mandates. ..
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