Audit into Durban Municipality’s Covid-19 spending misses deadline
The spending covers the four-month period between late March and July when the country was in a hard lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
THE audit report into eThekwini Municipality’s R456 million Covid-19 spending missed it’s deadline with auditors citing “non-compliance” as one of the main issues.
The spending covers the four-month period between late March and July when the country was in a hard lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to a report presented before the executive council, the audit was expected to be completed by 1 October but there were delays due to failure of sourcing of documents from the Supply Chain Management and Operations units and inability to verify expenditure reports.
“There have been issues of non-compliance that have been identified, improvements required on document management controls, internal control deficiencies on segregation of duties, as well as improvements that relate to system controls,” read the report.
Mxolisi Kaunda, mayor of eThekwini, ordered an audit report of the city’s R456 million Covid-19 bill in August.
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Speaking in August, Kaunda said the audit reports were in the interest of transparency and whether all Supply Management Chain processes were followed in the procuring of services and goods.
In a status report tabled at exco last week from Phumi Madlala, Acting Chief Audit Executive, it stated that three of the five audit teams have completed their work.
The three completed draft reports were consolidated into a single report for consultation with executive management.
“Management has supported the audit process and provided root causes for findings as well as responses on how the findings will be rectified,” said the report.
The final audit is expected to be completed this week.
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