We are about to get underway at the media briefing on 2018-19 local government audit outcomes and social distancing is top of mind. #AGreport 
Coincidentally the 2020-21 financial year for local government (municipalities) starts today. As we release the 2018-19 audit outcomes it means we have a full year which we will need to audit says AG Makwetu #AGreport
AG Kimi Makwetu starts the media briefing by introducing the theme of the report - "not much to go around, yet not the rights hands at the till" and mentions that we could have achieved more with the resources we have. #AGreport
Fruitless and wasteful expenditure amounted to R2.07 billion and unauthorised expenditure amounted to R11.98 billion in the 2018-19 audit outcomes. #AGreport
We are not really making progress when it comes to matters of financial management and accountability in local government sphere says AG Makwetu #AGreport
Overall audit outcomes per province. Gauteng and Western Cape continue to do well. #AGreport
Some of the grants that are meant for infrastructure projects are being used for operation expenditure and this raises a big flag for us says AG Makwetu #AGreport
The Eastern Cape as a province has been suffering from vacancies in key positions and this has led to the picture below says AG Makwetu #AGreport
Things look bad in the Eastern Cape province in terms of systems of accountability says AG Makwetu. #AGreport
Gauteng has been characterised by good financial accounting, however there is inadequate monitoring of preventative controls. #AGreport
The Brakpan Bus Company was the only entity in Ekurhuleni to get a bad audit outcome. #AGreport
Overall irregular expenditure amounted to R1.7 billion in Gauteng. #AGreport
Limpopo is making progress in the right direction, and we note the efforts of the premier in the province to improve financial management systems says AG Makwetu #AGreport
The impact of the R1,2 billion loss following the liquidation of VBS Mutual Bank is still being felt by the municipalities concerned, where service delivery has been affected. #AGreport
North West province represents a systematic breakdown in discipline of financial controls says AG Makwetu. #AGreport
A breakdown of the North West province municipalities where there is a systematic breakdown in discipline of financial control leading to poor audit outcomes. #AGreport
As part of the phased-in implementation of the additional powers given to the AG 9 municipalities were selected for implementation and this number will increase in the 2019-20 audits as we move into phase-2. #AGreport
Members of the public can access the #AGreport on 2018-19 local government audit outcomes via bit.ly/MFMAreport #agreport
The breakdown in the control environment continued with little response by the leadership to the messages of the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) to implement preventative controls. #AGreport
The result has been an environment in which supply chain management processes are abused; bank accounts are not properly scrutinised; revenue is lost due to system failures and transactions that are recorded twice; and proper reconciliations are not performed. #AGreport
Deputy AG Tsakani Maluleke confirms that 56 municipalities and 1 municipal entity will form part of the phase-2 implementation of additional powers given to the Auditor-General in April 2019. #AGreport
MPUMALANGA: Only two municipalities that made use of consultants improved their audit outcomes despite consultants being used to do the work of employed staff. The province spent a total of R98 million on consulting costs for financial reporting. #AGreport
MPUMALANGA: Deteriorating accountability and financial management coupled with weakened oversight is at the centre of the significant regressions in audit outcomes in the province. #AGreport
