Gauteng Finance MEC Nkululeko Dunga has painted a worrying state of finances in the province’s municipalities with only two of the province’s 11 municipalities obtaining clean audits in the 2024/2025 financial year.
He delivered the provincial state of finances and a plan of action in response to the municipal audit outcomes released by the Auditor General.
Only the Midvaal and West Rand local municipalities received clean audits, while the province’s three metros regressed on their audit outcomes.
Dunga says this is worrying as it has a direct impact on service delivery.
“Tshwane alone has accumulated R12.17 billion in irregular expenditure, R5.22 billion in unauthorised expenditure and R3.61 billion in fruitless and wasteful expenditure over four years, the highest irregular expenditure of any municipality in this province. Our two largest metros, the City of Johannesburg and the City of Ekurhuleni, both regressed this year moving from unqualified to qualified audit opinions. We will not soften this. Johannesburg has accumulated R6.55 billion in irregular expenditure, R6.81 billion in unauthorised expenditure.”
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