Joburg Mayor Dada Morero traced many of Johannesburg’s current challenges to the city’s operating model established through the Egoli 2002 restructuring programme, which created 14 municipal-owned entities responsible for delivering services on a business footing.
The City of Johannesburg has acknowledged serious governance and financial management shortcomings after the Auditor-General (AG) raised serious concerns about governance failures, weak compliance controls, deteriorating infrastructure and poor information technology management.
The AG last week told Parliament that the majority of the city's municipal entities remain trapped in a cycle of poor governance and inadequate accountability.
Appearing on Tuesday before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to account for its 2024/25 audit outcomes and ongoing investigations by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), the City's leadership conceded that Johannesburg continues to face deep-rooted structural, financial and governance challenges.
Joburg Mayor Dada Morero said the city received an unqualified audit opinion on its consolidated group annual financial statements for the 2024/25 financial year.
