Two of the country’s coastal cities came out tops on financial performance in the Auditor-General’s latest report‚ while a third performed dismally.
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu on Wednesday named and shamed municipalities for their poor spending habits in his 2014/15 report on local governments.
The Nelson Mandela Bay metro took the cake for fruitless and wasteful expenditure with a whopping R423-million spent.
This coastal city‚ which brought SA football’s Danny Jordaan to save it‚ further spent R34.4-million on unauthorised expenditure and R1.3-billion on unauthorised expenditure.
This compared with the Western Cape’s City of Cape Town metro which spent R1-million on irregular expenditure and eThekwini metro in Durban‚ KwaZulu-Natal‚ which spent R212-million on irregular expenditure. Both these cities received clean audits and have no unauthorised or fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
The City of Tshwane‚ the City of Johannesburg and Mangaung metros joined Nelson Mandela Bay on Makwetu’s naughty list.
The City of Tshwane‚ which made headlines recently with riots in Hammanskraal‚ yielded disappointing results related to its spending. Tshwane was listed among the top offenders contributing to irregular expenditure‚ at R1.1-billion‚ and unauthorised expenditure‚ at R786-million. Its spend on fruitless and wasteful expenditure was R1-million.
The City of Johannesburg spent R959-million on unauthorised expenditure‚ R79.6-million on irregular expenditure and R40‚ 000 on fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Mangaung‚ in the Free State‚ spent R1-billion on unauthorised expenditure‚ R8.1-million on irregular expenditure and R210‚000 on fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Buffalo City metro‚ in the Eastern Cape‚ spent R479-million irregularly‚ R245-million on unauthorised expenditure and R480‚000 on fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Ekurhuleni metro‚ in Gauteng‚ spent R67.5-million irregularly and R20.8-million fruitlessly and wastefully. It has no unauthorised expenditure.
Buffalo City metro spends R479-million irregularly- AG report
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu on Wednesday named and shamed municipalities for their poor spending habits in his 2014/15 report on local governments.
The Nelson Mandela Bay metro took the cake for fruitless and wasteful expenditure with a whopping R423-million spent.
This coastal city‚ which brought SA football’s Danny Jordaan to save it‚ further spent R34.4-million on unauthorised expenditure and R1.3-billion on unauthorised expenditure.
This compared with the Western Cape’s City of Cape Town metro which spent R1-million on irregular expenditure and eThekwini metro in Durban‚ KwaZulu-Natal‚ which spent R212-million on irregular expenditure. Both these cities received clean audits and have no unauthorised or fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
The City of Tshwane‚ the City of Johannesburg and Mangaung metros joined Nelson Mandela Bay on Makwetu’s naughty list.
The City of Tshwane‚ which made headlines recently with riots in Hammanskraal‚ yielded disappointing results related to its spending. Tshwane was listed among the top offenders contributing to irregular expenditure‚ at R1.1-billion‚ and unauthorised expenditure‚ at R786-million. Its spend on fruitless and wasteful expenditure was R1-million.
The City of Johannesburg spent R959-million on unauthorised expenditure‚ R79.6-million on irregular expenditure and R40‚ 000 on fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Mangaung‚ in the Free State‚ spent R1-billion on unauthorised expenditure‚ R8.1-million on irregular expenditure and R210‚000 on fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Buffalo City metro‚ in the Eastern Cape‚ spent R479-million irregularly‚ R245-million on unauthorised expenditure and R480‚000 on fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Ekurhuleni metro‚ in Gauteng‚ spent R67.5-million irregularly and R20.8-million fruitlessly and wastefully. It has no unauthorised expenditure.
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