The Limpopo provincial leadership must immediately develop and implement turnaround strategies to arrest the current situation which shows the provincial government moving further away from the desired clean audit outcomes, Auditor-General Terence Nombembe cautioned today.

Releasing his general report on how provincial departments and entities performed in the 2011-12 year, Nombembe said the province “had a very good reason to be proud and celebrate” in the previous year as two departments had received clean audits, but the positive picture has now been tainted as only the Department of Social Development and nine entities have shown some improvement, while four departments and five entities have regressed from their promising previous year’s results. The results reflect an overall regression.

During the year under review, the national government placed five Limpopo departments under administration. The audit outcomes of two of these departments, Education and Public Works, showed a regression from qualified audit opinions to disclaimer of opinions. The audit opinions for the other three departments that are under administration remained the same as Heath again received a disclaimer of opinion, Roads and Transport received a qualified opinion and Provincial Treasury maintained their unqualified opinion with other matters.

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