South Africa: Ethekwini Municipality Must Show Seriousness With Consequence Management

10 October 2020
Parliament of South Africa (Cape Town)
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The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has instructed the leadership of eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality to ensure effective consequence management against the perpetrators of financial misconduct within the municipality.

The committee considers it unacceptable that the city has incurred a staggering R2.9 billion in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful (UIFW) expenditure for the 2018/19 financial year. Lack of effective consequence management will lead to impunity and an increase in UIFW expenditure. It is in this context that the committee has called for speedy consequence management.

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