Chairperson, Operation Clean Audit's target is that by 2014 all municipalities are supposed to have achieved clean audits on their annual financial statements and be maintaining systems for sustaining quality financial statements and management information, with the understanding that all municipalities will each develop their own practical step processes to achieve this.
As of 14 September, audits have not been issued to 3,6% of municipalities. With the exception of two municipalities, the Nala Local Municipality in the Free State and Renosterberg Municipality in the Northern Cape, all have submitted their annual financial statements to the Auditor-General. This refers to all those who had not submitted at the point when the Auditor- General published the audit outcomes. Regarding the two municipalities that have not yet submitted their annual financial statements to the Auditor- General, we are working closely with them and assisting them to compile their annual financial statement as a matter of high priority.