EDITORIAL: Municipal audits paint bleak picture, again
Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke says that halfway through councils’ terms, audit performance has not improved
29 August 2024 - 05:00
In the most unsurprising development this week, municipal audit outcomes have once again regressed and the provision of services with it.
The state of local government finances has deteriorated to such an extent that only 34 of 257 municipalities received clean audits this year, with 20 of them in the Western Cape. This was down from 38 clean audits in the previous year...
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