LIMPOPO PROVINCIAL TREASURY
IMPROVED MUNICIPAL AUDIT OUTCOMES IN LIMPOPO PROVINCE
L
impopo Provincial Treasury appreciates improved municipal audit outcomes due to dedicated support and guidance from the department in line with the set legal mandates which need to be taken into consideration at all times. As a department, we remain hopeful that other municipalities will learn best practices from best performing municipalities and improvement will then be realized. Evidently, the province managed to improve the audit outcomes from 18 qualifications to 10 qualified opinions with 15 unqualified outcomes during the previous audit cycle. We have again managed to maintain a clean audit opinion achieved during 2018/19 and this encourages us to continuously support and capacitate municipalities to effectively and efficiently discharge their constitutional obligations. We are working tirelessly to see further improvements in municipal audits within the province and to align such achievements with service delivery. Coordination with other Stakeholders Both LPT and CoGHSTA have a constitutional mandate to support and capacitate municipalities within the province in line with relevant legislations and applicable policy provisions. Most of our municipalities are experiencing financial, administrative and service delivery challenges and this requires a more focused intervention in terms of support mechanisms.
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Municipal Focus
MEC: Seaparo Sekoati
THE FOLLOWING IS THE SUMMARY OF SUPPORT OF THE LPT AND COGHSTA TO MUNICIPALITIES: Revenue Management Support to Municipalities As LPT, we support municipalities on revenue management related functions in accordance with applicable legislation. This is achieved through capacity building, planning,
implementation and monitoring of revenue management processes. All municipalities are supported in the development and review of revenue related by-laws and policies annually. We conduct trainings on the reconciliation of the General Valuation Roll and the billing system and monitor implementation for accurate billing. Training is also facilitated in other revenue focused areas. All municipalities have revenue
