By Charmaine Ndlela
Only two of Gauteng’s 11 municipalities — Midvaal Local Municipality and West Rand District Municipality — achieved clean audits for the 2024/25 financial year, while the City of Johannesburg and the City of Ekurhuleni regressed to qualified audit opinions, signalling a decline in municipal financial governance.
Midvaal extended its clean audit streak to 13 consecutive years, while the West Rand District Municipality secured its second successive clean audit.
Gauteng Finance MEC Nkululeko Dunga released the consolidated municipal audit outcomes during a media briefing at Makause Informal Settlement in Germiston on Sunday.
Dunga said the province recorded an overall regression in audit outcomes.
“Six of the eleven municipalities received unqualified audit opinions with findings, two received clean audits with no findings at all, and three received qualified audit opinions,” he said.
“Overall, the audit outcomes of our province regressed in 2024/25.”
He said the clean audits demonstrated that
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