Tag: Salga
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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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Murder in the municipalities: 21 councillors killed in 22 months
In South Africa, the murder rate among municipal ward councillors is six times higher than the national rate of 45 murders per 100,000 people