Cogta has called on the municipality to push for clean audit status in the 2023/24 financial year.
This follows the news that KwaDukuza municipality (KDM) received its 18th consecutive unqualified audit last week, but continues to face repeated obstacles.
Addressing council last Thursday, Dr Joey Krishnan from Cogta (Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs) said she believed KDM had the ability to solve its own issues.
“We were really hoping to move KDM to a clean audit this year. We really want to focus on addressing the shortcomings,” she said.
“We can have the best plans, but failure to implement them is preventing the municipality from achieving their goals.”
Chairperson of the internal audit committee, Nosipho Mchunu, felt the same way.
“It is time that we undertake not only to investigate findings, but to implement consequence management,” she said.
“KDM will continue to receive repeat findings unless a concerted efforts is made to change.”
The main problems facing the municipality – energy losses, capital underspend and a lack of internal controls to affect consequence management – typically show up year-on-year.
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