Johannesburg – The City of Joburg has racked up nearly R3.1billion in irregular expenditure by failing to comply with its rules, and its audit committee has warned that this was preventing it from running a clean administration.
But the R3.1bn is not all, as management was still in the process of quantifying the full extent of the irregular expenditure.
“The majority of the disclosed irregular expenditure was caused by non-compliance with the municipal supply-chain management regulations,” reads Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu’s report, which was approved by the council at its meetings on March 27 and 28.
He said some of the irregular expenditure incurred by the municipality was not probed to determine if any officials were liable for it. The irregular expenditure stood at R3.4bn…
