Lebogang Maile says although former president Thabo Mbeki was correct in his assessments of municipalities, the problems were being addressed.
The former president told the audience at Unisa that the issues at municipalities started after 1994, when the ANC sent its best cadres to national and provincial government.
The Gauteng Member of the Executive Council of Finance and Economic Development Auditor General Tsakane Maluleke tabled municipal audit outcomes last week, where she revealed that only 34 of 257 municipalities achieved clean audits in the 2022/23 financial year.According to the AG, most municipalities still did not comply with procurement legislation on expenditure management, procurement and contract management, submission of annual financial statements and consequence management. This has resulted in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
“The 2021 local government elections, the ANC decided that it will set up national structures to participate in the selection of mayors to address the leadership issue. The political leadership at municipalities is a serious problem; and from that flows all manner of things. Why are these municipalities getting negative AG reports?”On Thursday, Maile said although the former president’s assessment was correct, the issues at municipalities were deeper than qualifications.
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