uThukela is one of 92% of municipalities that are financially ill, says the Auditor-General.
The number of municipalities with clean audits has increased from 14 to 54 in 2014/15, but the financial health of 92% of the country’s 278 municipalities is either of concern or interventions are required, Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu says. In a scathing report published in The Citizen, he lists uThukela District Municipality as one of the major offenders.
During the reporting period, 88% of municipalities, that is a total of 240, incurred R14.7 billion of irregular expenditure.
That means they spent money without following the applicable laws. This is more than double the amount incurred in 2010/11 and shows an increase of about R3 billion from the last financial year.
The main culprits were:
Rustenburg, with 2645 instances, totalling R3 billion;
Nelson Mandela Metro, with 142 instances, totalling R1.3 billion;
Tshwane, with 11 instances, totalling R1.1 billion;
Buffalo City, with 359 instances, totalling R409 million; and
uThukela District Municipality (KZN), with 1239 instances, totalling R324 million.
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