The Auditor-General, Kimi Makwetu, pointed out the big sore in the economy of the country.
In his latest report, he shows that politicians and officials simply ignore his office’s recommendations.
The other truth that emerges is that municipal councils do not have the necessary skills to handle finance.
Only 18 of the 257 municipalities in the country received clean audits, a worsening of the 33 who received clean reports in 2015 – 2016.
Almost 33% of the councils spend more than they bring in which is a total debt of R5.8bn. Unauthorized R1.3 billion is water under the bridge that will never be recovered.
North West, Limpopo and the Free State have no municipality that received a clean audit. Then add the R9.12bn debt to Eskom and R5.85bn to the Water Council by councils then paint a pale picture of the state of the country’s municipalities.
Then, in the 2017-18 financial year, 18% of the Councils did not
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