Reacting to the Auditor General’s (AG) report on local government last Tuesday, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said it painted a grim picture of incompetence, maladministration and waste of public money. “Cosatu demands that there must be...
The report for 2010-2011 provides bleak insight into financial mismanagement and widespread lack of accountability by local government officials. Auditor-general Terence Nombembe said a mere 13 – or 5% – of the 283 municipalities in the...
The Free State Department of Roads claims it has reached “mutually agreeable settlements” with all but one of the contractors owed hundreds of millions of rand for work completed on 23 road rehabilitation contracts in the province. However,...
Inferences that delaying the implementation of e-tolling will cause harm by reducing funding to social programmes is “emotional blackmail”, says the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA). It rejects media reports of this idea and says the...
