SALGA: Municipal audits show need for professional public service
The South African Local Government Association (Salga) says it continues to work with Cooperative Governance to improve the dire state of finances at many municipalities in KZN.
Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke has revealed that only 38 out of 257 municipalities in South Africa achieved a clean audit in the 2021/2022 financial year.
Maluleke also said the use of consultants and the cost involved remain an issue.
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SALGA's provincial chairperson Thami Ntuli says the need to professionalise the public service, especially in light of unstable coalition governments, has never been more urgent.
"The instability in municipalities also affords officials not to receive the oversight which is adequate enough to curve any wrong-doings. It is a matter which is quite important which is urgent in such a way that it must be resolved as soon as yesterday.
"That is why we had the view as Salga in KwaZulu-Natal that there have to be some regulations which will compel when you enter into a coalition agreement - it has to be for a term."
