Wasteful Expenditure

The Free State municipality is facing severe fiscal distress, with liabilities exceeding R5.8bn and a R871.6 million deficit, says Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke

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

Operational inefficiencies and infrastructure neglect have led to logistical challenges costing the economy R1 billion daily in lost economic output

A disregard for the rule of law also saw the country lose R14 billion through payment of goods not received

An internal report shows that the municipality bungled two tenders related to street lights, one of which exceeded its budgeted amount by R24 million

The department of health will ask for the immediate recovery of all irregular payments made to Digital Vibes

Something has to give Mr Mboweni

The government misuses taxes and does not maintain our safety, justice, health and infrastructure systems. Eventually citizens will tire of the lack of delivery

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There is now a nifty website that shows what your local council has spent – and what it should have but has not.

Auditor-General finds that secretary of Parliament failed to declare some wasteful expenditure to his bosses.