Former Tshwane mayor Randall Williams failed to provide adequate oversight, AG tells Parliament
A scathing report by the auditor-general has accused former Tshwane mayor Randall Williams of failing to provide adequate oversight during the 2021/2022 financial year.
The auditor-general’s office appeared before Parliament’s cooperative governance committee on Friday.
"The mayor failed to provide adequate oversight ensuring that prior years audit issues are addressed including the viability issues and the environment and also ensuring that consequence management is timely effected," the AG’s Xolani Zicwele told MPs.
The AG's office issued the City of Tshwane with an adverse audit opinion during the financial year in question, while in the previous years it had only received unqualified audit opinions.
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"As it might be, when you look at this audit opinion and what it means is that it is clear that the issues were repeat issues. One or two of them are issues that might have been new," added Zicwele.
In the 2021/2022 financial year the City of Tshwane incurred a whopping R10.5 billion in irregular expenditure while fruitless and wasteful expenditure came in at a massive R1.5 billion.
The adverse findings by the AG's office have since seen Williams resign as mayor and replaced by Murunwa Makwarela from the Congress of the People.
