SOUTH AFRICA AUDIT REPORT ATTACKS MASSIVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND MALADMINISTRATION
August 1st, 2012
BY BILL CORCORAN, IN CAPE TOWN
Post-apartheid South Africa has significant business opportunities for companies that can assist local governments in service delivery. But a recent damning Auditor General report has shown companies need to be cautious to avoid the corruption, incompetence and maladministration that is rife at municipal level. Bill Corcoran reports from Cape Town.
The latest annual report by South Africa's Auditor General Terence Nombembe was so awful that only 13 of South Africa's 283 municipalities receiving clean audits in the last financial ...
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