The South African Local Government Association (Salga) Limpopo recognised municipalities with positive audit outcomes at a breakfast session hosted at Sun Meropa on Tuesday.
No municipalty in the province received a clean audit opinion for the 2017/18 financial year, however, Capricorn District Municipality (CDM) and the Elias Motsoaledi, Greater Letaba, Thulamela, Ephraim Mogale, Maruleng and Molemole local municipalities received unqualified opinions from the Auditor-General.
Awards were also made to CDM and the Lepelle-Nkumpi, Makhuduthamaga, Makhado, Thulamela, Maruleng, Greater Letaba and Ba-Phalaborwa local municipalities for spending 100% of their Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) funds.
Limpopo Premier, Stan Mathabatha handed over the awards and took the opportunity to congratulate the municipalities that have done well in their audit opinions. “We are looking forward to these municipalities improving on their current audit opinions. What we need is to work together with shared energy, shared responsibilities, shared accountability, shared resources, shared capacity and shared best practices, shared jubilation in our successes, shared shame in our failures and shared resolve in getting up when we falter,” the Premier said.
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