The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) says it referring the Auditor General’s report to the Public Protector for investigation – after it was revealed yesterday that only 18 of the country’s 257 municipalities managed to attain a clean audit.
Samwu General Secretary, Koena Ramotlou, said: “There are people who have used municipalities as a breeding ground for corruption. We cannot accept that 92% of municipalities cannot be able to get a clean audit.”
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu released his local government audits for the 2017/18 financial year yesterday, and not a single municipality in the Free State, Limpopo and the North West received a clean audit.
Makwetu said only one municipality in Gauteng obtained a clean audit, and 12 of the 18 municipalities with clean audits were in the Western Cape.
Irregular expenditure across municipalities amounted to R25 billion, Makwetu’s report said.
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