Category: Governance
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Municipal audit tracker: Visualising 13 years of SA’s local government audit outcomes
When South Africa’s auditor-general, Tsakani Maluleke, presented the 2022-23 consolidated general report on local government audit outcomes to parliament on Tuesday 27 August, she said that although a few municipalities had maintained clean audits over several years, the overall picture remains bleak. Only 34 of the country’s 257 municipalities achieved clean audits in 2022-23. This is four…
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Joburg’s mayoral carousel: ANC’s Dada Morero is back in the hot seat
Johannesburg’s 11th mayor in 10 years has been sworn in. On 16 August, the ANC’s Dada Morero replaced Al Jama-ah’s Kabelo Gwamanda, who was installed as mayor last year after his party colleague Thapelo Amad resigned after just four months as leader of South Africa’s biggest metro. The Al Jama-ah mayors were put in place…