Gauteng has three metropolitan municipalities, two district municipalities, seven local municipalities and 25 municipal entities. All 37 auditees submitted their financial statements for the 2012-13 financial year for audit within the prescribed timelines. Sixty-eight per cent (68%) of auditees prepared and submitted reliable and useful financial performance information that was supported by an adequate audit trail.

Free State has one metropolitan municipality, four district municipalities, 19 local municipalities and three municipal entities. The Nala municipality’s financial statements were received too late for inclusion in the general report. Of the 26 auditees, 23 (88%) submitted their financial statements for the 2012-13 financial year within the prescribed timelines. All (100%) the financial statements and annual performance reports submitted for audit purposes contained material misstatements.

Eastern Cape has two metropolitan municipalities, six district municipalities, 37 local municipalities and 10 municipal entities. Fifty-two auditees (95%) submitted their financial statements (AFS) for the 2012-13 financial year for audit within the prescribed timelines, while Makana, Ngqushwa and Sundays River failed to do so. However, the financial statements submitted by most municipalities were again of poor quality, resulting in an unacceptable high level of material audit adjustments neede...

PRETORIA – Fifteen municipalities and two municipal entities improved their previous year’s audit outcomes to progress to financially unqualified opinions with no findings (commonly known as a ‘clean audit’), increasing the number of clean audits to 30 in the 2012-13 financial year, Auditor-General (AG) Kimi Makwetu announced today. Overall, there were 63 improvements in different categories of audit outcomes against 25 regressions.

KAAPSTAD - Die merkbare toename in die aantal munisipaliteite en munisipale entiteite wat finansieel ongekwalifiseerde ouditmenings met geen bevindings (algemeen bekend as 'n 'skoon oudit') in die 2013-14 boekjaar ontvang het, is 'n lofwaardige stap in die rigting van grootliks goeie bestuur vir Suid-Afrika se openbare sektor, het die Ouditeur-Generaal (OG) Kimi Makwetu vandag gesê.