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Municipalities need youthful leaders

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Midvaal mayor Bongani Baloyi shows the value of competent young leaders who prioritise accountability and challenge the status quo
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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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​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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Urgent measures needed to address the poor state of municipalities

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Local government officials must work together with citizens to ensure communities participate in decision-making that affects them
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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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Municipal cost-containment measures gazetted as state seeks to tighten its belt

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The regulations form part of cost-cutting measures by the state as it seeks to improve its balance sheet
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Budget notes from the bathroom

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Run your home like a country and you’ll soon learn how to hold the government accountable
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Civil society in 2019 — the year of redemption and renewal

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Citizens must exercise their right to vote to ensure responsible governance
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New NPA boss to be announced on Tuesday

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President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to make the announcement at the Union Buildings in Pretoria
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Midvaal mayor Bongani Baloyi shows the value of competent young leaders who prioritise accountability and challenge the status quo

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