EC Provincial Municipalities is indebted to the Auditor General a sum of R40.3m

Chumani Simelela

31 March 2016

Eastern Cape provincial municipalities owed the Auditor-General more than R40-million in unpaid audit fees by the end of the 2015-16 financial year, third quarter in December, and the provincial treasury revealed in a statement.

A report on the debt was presented to the Bhisho legislature’s finance portfolio committee by treasury head Daluhlanga Majeke.

The provincial municipalities and their entities are indebted to the Auditor General to the tune of R40.3-million, a slight increase from the R40.1-million the municipalities owed the Auditor General at the end of the same period in the previous financial year.