eThekwini Municipality tops irregular expenditure list
Parliament has heard that eThekwini
Municipality is leading the charge in irregular expenditure.
"So, when you put all of our municipalities together, eThekwini does come up tops in terms of how much they are contributing to the value of irregular expenditure," said the Auditor General of South Africa’s KZN Business Unit Leader Nomalungelo Mkhize.
Officials from the Auditor-General's office appeared before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday to discuss the audit outcomes of several municipalities.
The AGSA's report looked at the 2022/2023 financial year.
It was revealed that eThekwini's irregular expenditure amounted to R2.4 billion.
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Mkhize said poor consequence management is to blame.
"There were repeat findings. They can't get out of the unqualified with findings zone because they are not addressing the issue.
"We have raised concerns around that fact that some of the investigations are delayed and there are quite a number of backlogs that as at the 2023 financial year," said Mkhize.
"Yes, the investigations are done but you are also looking at the further actions around that in terms of implementing. Just being able to attend to that could have actually addressed that, at least R2 billion of that."
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