ANC's CADRE DEPLOYMENT CAUSED NW MUNICIPAL FINANCIAL ANARCHY
NW ANC's CADRE DEPLOYMENT CAUSED NW MUNICIPAL FINANCIAL ANARCHY
The North west Democratic Alliance noted the announcement by the North West Provincial Government that major audit companies are going to be contracted to assist NW municipalities with their financial administration.
This announcement came after the recent release of the expected but still shocking Auditor General's Report on NW Municipalities finances.
The report highlighted the continued financial and administrative regression of NW municipalities where now only 9 out of 24 municipalities were able to compile and submit financial statements for audit purposes. Not a single one of these 9 municipalities was given a clean audit status by the AG.
The governance levels now prevalent in NW municipalities, with its devastating results on even the diminishing delivery attempts still remaining, reached such a state that it can be described as financial and administrative anarchy. Most NW municipalities have already abdicated their primary responsibilities such as financial administration, planning, project management etc to expensive consultants, who in many instances were contracted after questionable procurement processes. This happened whilst keeping the deployed incompetent and overpaid personnel , who were appointed on the basis of being capable to fulfill the functions for which they had been appointed, in their offices at the expense of the already overburdened tax payer.