Joburg pledges financial recovery as MPs demand answers over write-off billions

Staff Reporter

The City of Johannesburg has pledged stronger financial controls, improved revenue collection, and tougher consequence management after the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) demanded answers over billions of rand in unlawful expenditure that the metro regularised or wrote off.

The city appeared before SCOPA and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs on Tuesday to account for its 2024/25 audit outcomes, financial management, governance failures and service-delivery performance.

On Thursday, the office of Mayor Dada Morero said the city had accepted the Auditor-General’s findings and had shifted its focus from audit remediation to corrective action aimed at addressing the root causes of repeated failures.

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“The City values Parliament’s oversight role, recognising this engagement as a vital component of accountability,” the statement said.

The committees demanded a full account of investigations, recoveries, disciplinary action