More than 60% of municipalities cannot say where their money comes from and more than half cannot provide proof of how they spend it.
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/ 26 October 2007
Simply enforcing financial operating disciplines will go a long way towards reducing the high number of qualified audit reports received last year by government departments, said Auditor General (AG) Terence Nombembe on Friday. He highlighted measures adopted by other countries that were successfully applying accrual accounting.
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/ 26 October 2007
With Limpopo still to be accounted for, Eastern Cape provincial government departments are leading the field when it comes to poor accounting, according to figures released by the Auditor General on Friday. Eleven of the province’s 12 departments received qualified audit reports for the 2006/7 financial year, and three of the 11 got an ”adverse” rating.
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/ 19 September 2007
Auditor General (AG) Terence Nombembe will conduct an audit next year to assess station-level performance within the South African Police Service (SAPS). The special audit will examine, among others, uneven service delivery at station-level across the country, which affects the way that are opened and recorded, and crime statistics compiled.
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/ 3 September 2007
The former Auditor General (AG) of South Africa, Henri Kluever, has died, the office of the Auditor General announced on September 3. He had served in the post from 1993 to 1999 during transition in the country and at the time the institution gained independence and autonomy from the public sector.