KwaZulu-Natal municipal officials will be compelled to undergo training in the event of poor audits, the province said.
|||Pietermaritzburg - KwaZulu-Natal municipal officials will be compelled to undergo training in the event of poor audits, the province said on Thursday.
“We are on the point of introducing compulsory training programmes with relevant modules for officials in municipalities that have received poor audit reports,” co-operative governance MEC Nomusa Dube told reporters in Pietermaritzburg.
The province currently does not allow elected councillors to receive bonuses or award bonuses to municipal officials of municipalities that have received adverse reports from the auditor-general.
Dube - speaking ahead of presenting her department's annual budget to the provincial legislature - said the performance of the province's municipalities had improved since 2009.
Turning to the controversial Manase Report - a 700-page forensic audit report on fraud and corruption in the eThekwini Metro - Dube said the date for its release would be announced within a “few days”.
She would however not commit to when that would be.
Durban's councillors who agreed to sign a secrecy clause were allowed to see the report. - Sapa