Addressing the 8th annual Local Government Week, Dlamini-Zuma said political governance in municipalities is of high importance as there needs to be accountability in the running of municipalities as per the Auditor-General's recent reports. She says the majority of municipalities across all provinces are still plagued with a lack of preventative controls and a lack of consequent management, amongst others.

OFM News yesterday reported that the Local Government Week Programme held by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), together with the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), comes just weeks after the Auditor-General (AG) released a damning report indicating how only 20 municipalities of the country's 257 municipalities have been able to attain a clean audit, while those in the Free State and North West failed to obtain any clean audits.

AG Kimi Makwetu outlined that the majority of municipalities in the country are in a vulnerable financial position, needing urgent intervention.

Makwetu said there is a deliberate lack of accountability by the political and administrative municipal leadership, as well as a breakdown of financial systems in most of them.

Addressing the virtual Local Government Week Programme, Salga President Thembi Nkadimeng, said that there is a need to review resources and funds provided to municipalities as well as how they are used.

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