AG slams Joburg's failure to compile financial statements

Tsakani Maluleke briefed the National Council of Provinces about the dire state of local government for the 2023/24 financial year on Wednesday.

The City of Cape Town is the only municipality that received clean audit again, while Johannesburg, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, received unqualified audit

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Maluleke said Johannesburg should do better given the financial muscles it has to employ people to do the work.

"City of Joburg didn't give us quality financial statements when we began our audit. Now, that's a big city, the biggest in the country, the biggest on the continent.

"There should be no difficulty in ensuring that you've got the skills and the capability to do what you're supposed to do, just on compiling financial statements."

Maluleke also said she was disappointed that some of the country's metros did not preform well.

"Given the scale of their operations, the complexity thereof, but also the resources that they manage and even their location, they should have no difficulty attracting the skills that they need to run their environment."

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