EThekwini mayor Cyril Xaba. With a budget of R71 billion, the metro’s scale and economic significance mean that its governance and service delivery outcomes have a substantial impact on the province’s overall development trajectory.
The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality has emerged as one of only two metropolitan municipalities to secure an unqualified audit opinion on its financial statements, standing out against a backdrop of deteriorating audit outcomes across the metros, according to the Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke.
With a budget of R71 billion, the metro’s scale and economic significance mean that its governance and service delivery outcomes have a substantial impact on the province’s overall development trajectory.
Presenting the 2024-25 local government audit outcomes report, Maluleke on Thursday said the country’s metros continued to regress, despite their critical role in serving nearly 25 million people and managing more than half of local government expenditure.
“The audit outcomes of metros continued to regress in 2024-25, reflecting that these fundamentals are not in place,” Maluleke said in the report.
