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National Treasury has temporarily withheld July 2026 equitable share transfers worth R13.5-billion from 69 municipalities, including Johannesburg, Mangaung, Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela Bay, over unfunded budgets and poor audit outcomes. The MKP and the EFF have condemned the move as punitive, arguing it punishes residents rather than officials responsible for mismanagement, with the EFF citing Auditor-General figures showing R145.21-billion in irregular expenditure since 2021/22.
Cogta committee demands accountability as audit outcomes show mixed progressParliament's Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, chaired by Dr Zweli Mkhize, has urged affected municipalities to meet Treasury's conditions urgently, warning that poor audit outcomes reflect failures of municipal leadership integrity. The Auditor-General recorded R40.14-billion in irregular expenditure and R24.12-billion in fruitless and wasteful expenditure for 2024/25, though disclaimed opinions fell and 98% of municipalities submitted financial statements on time.
No metro achieves clean audit despite Cape Town's regressionNot a single metropolitan municipality achieved a clean audit for 2024/25, with Cape Town losing its clean audit status, while only 39 of 257 municipalities nationally reached clean audit status, down from 41 previously.
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The MKP and the EFF have strongly condemned the National Treasury’s decision to temporarily withhold R13.5-billion in local government equitable share transfers from 69 non-compliant...
Not a single metropolitan municipality in South Africa achieved a clean audit for the 2024/25 financial year, according to the latest Auditor-General reports, with the Organisation Undoing Tax...
Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs have demanded an exhaustive breakdown of the more than...
The failure of the City of Johannesburg poses a systemic risk to the entire economy, says business organisation Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busisiwe Mavuso. The city accounts for 16% of...
The business formations that have formally offered to extend the Government-Business Partnership model – hitherto used to tackle national crises such as loadshedding – to the City of Johannesburg...
The South African business sector has issued an urgent call to political parties and national government to immediately stabilise the City of Johannesburg’s fiscal and governance crisis. Ahead of...
Economic growth is an outcome of a well-functioning system and unlocking local economic development requires fixing service delivery, which requires fixing governance, President Cyril Ramaphosa...
The executive and the board of State-owned defence industrial group Denel have assured that the company is adopting proper and sound business practices. They did so in a press release on Wednesday....
With municipalities such as Johannesburg and eThekwini losing about 35% to 50% of treated water to leaks owing to mismanagement, this foregone revenue is not spent on essential maintenance,...
South Africa’s escalating water outages are being driven primarily by failing infrastructure rather than water scarcity, and the country is facing a critical turning point requiring urgent...
A new report by AfriForum has revealed that a large percentage of samples of municipal drinking water show it is safe for human consumption; however, 94 out of 109, or 86%, of sewage treatment...
South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) acting CEO Blake Mosley-Lefatola has questioned the motives of whistleblowers that continue to raise serious allegations about developments at the...
Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke on Friday issued the first certificate of debt when North West Ngaka Modiri Molema district municipality accounting officer Allan Losaba was held to be personally...
The Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to be presented in Parliament this week is another opportunity for government to signal real progress in improving the management of the country’s...
The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is once again facing renewed allegations of mismanagement, leadership instability and governance failures, as contained in whistleblower letters...
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has paid out a record R5.5-billion in October, its highest monthly payout for the 2025/26 financial year, as the newly appointed board marks its first 100 days in...
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has achieved an unqualified audit opinion from the Auditor-General for the 2024/25 financial year ended March 31, which reflects...
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