Municipal Finance Management Act

eThekwini says it is cooperating with investigations into EPWP corruption, including claims of “jobs for sex” and ghost workers

Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson has suspended EPWP funding to eThekwini after an Auditor-General report exposed ghost beneficiaries, irregular payments and allegations of…

The council has racked up billions in irregular and unauthorised expenditure, impacting services and ratepayers

Municipalities get 10% of the national budget and must raise revenue from service users, most of whom are the working class poor and unemployed

South Africa needs to rethink its executive overload and trim the number of deputy ministers, saving R100 million a year

Residents deserve to know that the information shared with their municipality is securely stored and will not be leaked, sold or weaponised

Only 5% of entities, departments and municipalities have initiated blacklisting for offenders

The councillor has been accused of giving away provincial land for a taxi rank development without following legislation

Makana’s budget, and those of most municipalities, need monitoring and the corrupt and wasteful held to account

As a recent court case in Nelson Mandela Bay shows, the city management appointment process should be purely administrative and stripped of politics

Eastern Cape’s head of public works Babalo Madikizela has hit back at Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, saying she had no authority to investigate him

Service-delivery issues, procurement inefficiencies and cadre deployment continue to plague municipalities, according to the Bureau for Economic Research

The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets

The Hawks and the NPA want to boost forensic investigative capacity to get back more money lost to corruption

An investigation into the Northern Cape municipality has uncovered multiple issues of alleged fraud, including nepotism and unauthorised salary hikes