LETTER: Discipline errant municipalities with pro rata cuts
Financial steps are needed to resolve the problem of councils whose audits reflect poor management
01 July 2020 - 15:57
SA is a democracy. Inter alia this implies that all citizens, from the president to the voters who elect him, have both rights and responsibilities.
In the case of the municipalities the election of officers is direct. To resolve the problem of the many municipalities whose audits reflect poor management, a simple way to “discipline” them is for their annual allocation from the central government to be cut by the amount the annual audit deems to have been spent without proper procedure being followed...
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