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Council officials must explain wastage or pay up

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The last full municipal audit, for 2017-2018, showed that unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at municipalities has reached R122-billion
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Impossible choices in QwaQwa: What it takes to get water

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A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as trading sex for water
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Everyone is responsible for creating ethical leadership

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Citizens, politicians, business people and civil society organisations must reject unethical leaders
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​How the auditor general plans to get some billions lost to corruption

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Irregular expenditure is increasing, but the Auditor General is using more of its powers to get the money back
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Scopa’s new chairperson promises to kick butt on public spending

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Mkhuleko Hlengwa warns that Scopa will use its new far-reaching powers
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AG targets tender deviations

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In part three of a series on how government entities get around procurement processes, the M&G looks at why this is a big problem for the AG's office
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Billions lost in disorganised municipalities

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The AG has called for more leadership from municipalities and local government, as his office prepares to get more power to force accountability
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Financial state of municipalities has worsened — AG

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Although irregular expenditure has decreased slightly in municipalities, most of them were unable to achieve a clean audit
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LIVESTREAM: Auditor General to report on municipal finances

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Auditor General Kimi Makwetu will release the latest audit of the state of municipalities throughout the country
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After years of barking, the AG gets teeth

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A new law gives the auditor general the power to act against corruption and wasteful expenditure
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Pattern of wasteful expenditure as audit regression increases

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The Auditor General says over the last four years, more audit outcomes have regressed than improved
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Municipal reports need to be public-friendly

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Citizens want to know how government, at all levels, is spending their money
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The last full municipal audit, for 2017-2018, showed that unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at municipalities has reached R122-billion

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