By Lebone Rodah Mosima
Premier Lazarus Mokgosi has announced that the North West provincial government will roll out a province-wide Smart-Gov Monitoring and Evaluation Dashboard from the start of the 2026/27 financial year, aimed at strengthening oversight and improving service delivery across municipalities.
Delivering his State of the Province Address (SOPA), Mokgosi said all departments would be integrated into a single executive oversight platform enabling real-time tracking of performance, expenditure and service delivery outcomes.
He said the province was beginning to reverse poor audit outcomes, with nine of the eleven departments receiving unqualified and clean audits in the latest cycle.
“The encouraging signs of recovery, as reflected in audit outcomes, bear testimony to the ongoing commitment of government to support municipalities through financial recovery plans, administrative support, planning and budgeting,” he said.
According to Mokgosi, municipalities including Moses Kotane Local Municipality, Taung Local Municipality and JB Marks Local Municipality have improved from qualified to unqualified audit opinions.
He said the province will now focus on assisting Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality and Moretele Local Municipality to move from unqualified to clean audits.
Mokgosi also noted a decline in disclaimer audit outcomes from nine municipalities in 2020/21 to just one in 2024/25 — Ditsobotla Local Municipality.
“We will be introducing Section 154 of the Constitution in identified municipalities to strengthen their capacity in areas such as waste management and road maintenance,” said Mokgosi.
“The Departments of Public Works and Roads as well Economic Development, Environment, Conservation, and Tourism will be seized with the responsibility to assist with the aforementioned. Ditsobotla and Matlosana Local Municipalities will be our starting point where our cooperation will include working with SANRAL and Farmer’s organisations. Section 106 investigations into alleged acts of maladministration at City of Matlosana, Madibeng and Tswaing have been completed with remedial action plans being
implemented.”
Mokgosi also said that through the “Adopt a Municipality” initiative, Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Infrastructure South Africa.
“In the next twenty-four months the municipality will be working hand in glove with ISA
to roll-out various projects to fast-track infrastructure development, enhance technical
capacity, revenue collection, and address maintenance backlogs,” he said.
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