uMhlathuze and King Cetshwayo hold audit heads high
This as the number of clean audits for 2016/2017 in the province has regressed from 11 in the previous financial cycle, to seven
THE KZN Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has vowed to ensure harsh consequences for poorly performing municipalities.
This as the number of clean audits for 2016/2017 in the province has regressed from 11 in the previous financial cycle, to seven.
However, this does not include King Cetshwayo District and the City of uMhlathuze, which maintained clean audits and ‘deserve a round of applause for their consistently hard work’ according to KZN MEC for Cogta, Nomusa Dube-Ncube.
‘The audit outcomes for 53 municipalities for 2016/2017 include: seven unqualified audits with no findings – that is clean audits; 33 unqualified audits with findings; 10 qualified audits; two adverse audit opinions; and one audit disclaimer,’ said Dube-Ncube.
‘The root causes of the negative audit outcomes in 13 municipalities include slow response to improving key internal controls by senior management and the political leadership, inadequate consequences for poor performance, and vacancies in key management positions in municipalities.
‘We are introducing a radical audit outcome strategy going forward. We vow to ensure that disciplinary actions are taken and that no salary increments or performance bonuses are paid to officials of municipalities which achieved poor audit outcomes, or their councillors,’ said Dube-Ncube.
‘KZN Cogta has already demonstrated that it is not afraid to intervene in poorly performing municipalities when this is necessary.
‘The department now wants to see harsh consequences for non-performance and as it continues to provide hands-on support, it will also be asking all mayors to lead from the front.’
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