MEC Vusi Mkhatshwa intensify support for municipalities

• Published date: 27 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

Mpumalanga MEC for Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Mr Vusi Mkhatshwa together with MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Mr Mandla Ndlovu met with ten local municipalities to assess their budget plans ahead of tabling next month.

The meeting, which was chaired by MEC Mkhatshwa aimed at assisting municipalities to resolve matters relating to unfunded budgets before tabling for the year 2022/3 financial year.

Each municipality, represented by Mayors, Municipal Managers and Chief Financial Officers presented their plans and projections to the Provincial Treasury team responsible for Municipal Finance.

This forms part of the Provincial Treasury's role to enhance accountability in both Public Finance Management Act and Municipal Finance Management Acts through intergovernmental collaborations.

On his opening remarks, MEC Mkhatshwa said that over the past two weeks, the Provincial Treasury engaged in a consultative process with each of our municipalities in terms of Section 23 of the MFMA.

He said the engagements, the draft budget was discussed and it was agreed that the recommendations from the Provincial Treasury will be incorporated into the draft budgets prior to consideration by the Council for approval.

'The process afforded us an opportunity to test the credibility of budgets and check whether they...