. The Committee has noted with appreciation the oversight role played by the Provincial COGHSTA Portfolio Committee. . The Committee as a matter of course regularly interacts with SALGA as a Voice of Organised Local government State Owned Entity. . The Frances Baard District Municipality obtained a clean audit - It assist municipalities under its jurisdiction to manage their finances and comply with regulations . The province intervened in Dikgatlong Local Municipality by deploying a Chief Finance Officer and a technician on its own budget . To overcome the distance/vastness of province's challenge, 5 district offices have been created and also video conferencing has been encouraged to avoid costly travelling . The Committee has noted that there is improvement in respect to clean audit in municipalities because intervention has been made by the province to form Operation Clean Audit Committee led by Director General of the Province . Five technical task teams comprising of officials from the province, Provincial Treasury, COGHSTA department and Premier's Offices are deployed to municipalities to assess their capacity with respect to financial management.