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The African National Congress welcomes the 2010-2011 local government report released by the Auditor-General, Terence Nombembe, on the 23rd July 2012. This report is important for the ANC and we remain committed in ensuring that all municipal managers and senior management in municipalities are appropriately qualified.We note with disappointment that out of 283 municipalities only 13 manage to get clean audits. This is indeed a matter of serious concern in the ANC.

In this regard the ANC will strengthen its existing capacity to monitor government performance through the introduction of early warning mechanism. We will also as we will indicate below, deal distinctively with recurrent problems as identified in the AG’s report. In line with the intervention measures introduced by government to reverse the negative performance by municipalities, the ANC will pursue the objective of a professional public service that is accountable and responsive to public needs and the need to accelerate service delivery. We also call on government to use existing government prescripts to ensure that compliance and enforcement of accountability measures are strengthen. We also call on government to accelerate the solution of non- viable municipalities through a funding model that will afford all municipalities the requisite capacity.

As the ANC, we firstly extend our congratulations to the Ehlanzeni, Steve Tshwete, Victor Khanye and the Fatakgomo municipalities for being the best performance according to the report. We urge all other municipalities who did not perform well to learn from their counter-parts who did well as contained in the AG’s report. The people of South Africa expect nothing but accountability and service delivery.
The ANC will use the forthcoming ANC Lekgotla, to get an analysis of the AG’s report and the state of municipalities on this regard.