Tshwane Mayor vows to ‘smoke out’ corruption following third qualified audit

Tshwane Mayor Nasiphi Moya has assured the Auditor General (AG) that the municipality will ‘smoke out’ corrupt officials within its employ.

This comes after the metro received a qualified audit opinion with findings for the 2024 / 2025 financial year, for a third consecutive year.

The report was tabled before the Tshwane council meeting on Thursday.

The Auditor General has raised concerns over the lack of internal controls and consequence management in the Tshwane municipality.

The AG says not enough is being done by the municipality to curb and investigate its unauthorised, irregular, fruitless, and wasteful expenditure, which has risen to more than R5 billion.

Tshwane Municipality Mayor Nasiphi Moya says the city is trying to hold officials accountable; however, the internal processes are moving at a slow pace.

"We have now realised that a majority of officials in this city are good people, they mean well, we need them every day doing the work they are employed to do. But there is a minority that’s part of the criminal network,s and we are going to smoke them out of the system. That you have our word."

Meanwhile, some opposition parties say this is a long-standing issue in the metro, and institutional reforms need to be introduced.