HIGHVELD – The total disregard for prescribed legislation and supply chain management policies by the Govan Mbeki Municipality, has allowed corruption to flourish.
This was revealed during the oversight visit by the Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation on Tuesday, 15 September.
For the 2018/19 financial year the municipality showed an upward trend in irregular and fruitless expenditure of R1,34-billion, wasteful expenditure of R164-million and unauthorised expenditure of R568,5-million.
The committee suggested that the municipality is in a state of paralysis and urgent action needs to be taken to reverse the bad state of its administration.
Mr China Dodovu, chairperson of the committee, said the committee is concerned that the debt book of the municipality is standing at R2,2-billion.
“The impact of the debt owed to Eskom, which is just over R2-billion, and to Rand Water, which is owed R317-million, has an adverse impact on
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