ActionSA Limpopo Demands Forensic Accountability Following Auditor-General’s Exposure of R400m Municipal Crisis
Press Statement by Victor Mothemela
ActionSA Limpopo Chairperson
Today, ActionSA Limpopo has been fully vindicated by the Auditor-General’s (AG) appalling report, which reveals a R400 million financial crisis in the Polokwane Municipality. The staggering amount, driven by wasteful expenditure and devastating utility losses, is the ultimate embodiment of the systemic corruption and mismanagement we’ve discussed in our previous formal correspondence.
On February 5, ActionSA issued a stern warning and formally ordered “Immediate and Mandatory Lifestyle Audits for ANC Councillors and MMCs Across All Limpopo Local Municipalities,” arguing that “clean audits,” as claimed by the ANC, were a superficial administrative exercise that would merely conceal a deeper financial collapse. Today, the Auditor-General has issued the same warning, having unequivocally found that while officials were sanitising reports, the municipality was collapsing under the burden of R400 million in mismanagement.
The AG has now validated what ActionSA already knew: Polokwane officials are presiding over a cesspool of corruption while infrastructure deteriorates, water sources run dry, and roads break apart. Since the ANC regime dismissed our February 5th demand for internal transparency, we are now increasing our response by hiring independent private investigators to conduct lifestyle audits specifically for the Polokwane Municipality.
We will also focus on the Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMCs), who manage multi-million rand budgets, to expose the significant discrepancies between their official salaries and the opulent lifestyles they lead. Corruption in Polokwane is no longer just a topic of debate; it is now a documented fact from the audit.
ActionSA will not allow these results to get lost behind statistics. We will report all forensic findings collected by our independent investigators to the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), with the intention that they are held criminally and legally responsible. The time for empty promises is over; we are committed to redressing every municipality in Limpopo and putting taxpayer money toward the much-needed services our communities truly deserve.
ActionSA Limpopo Demands Forensic Accountability Following Auditor-General’s Exposure of R400m Municipal Crisis
Today, ActionSA Limpopo has been fully vindicated by the Auditor-General’s (AG) appalling report, which reveals a R400 million financial crisis in the Polokwane Municipality. The staggering amount, driven by wasteful expenditure and devastating utility losses, is the ultimate embodiment of the systemic corruption and mismanagement we’ve discussed in our previous formal correspondence.
On February 5, ActionSA issued a stern warning and formally ordered “Immediate and Mandatory Lifestyle Audits for ANC Councillors and MMCs Across All Limpopo Local Municipalities,” arguing that “clean audits,” as claimed by the ANC, were a superficial administrative exercise that would merely conceal a deeper financial collapse. Today, the Auditor-General has issued the same warning, having unequivocally found that while officials were sanitising reports, the municipality was collapsing under the burden of R400 million in mismanagement.
The AG has now validated what ActionSA already knew: Polokwane officials are presiding over a cesspool of corruption while infrastructure deteriorates, water sources run dry, and roads break apart. Since the ANC regime dismissed our February 5th demand for internal transparency, we are now increasing our response by hiring independent private investigators to conduct lifestyle audits specifically for the Polokwane Municipality.
We will also focus on the Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMCs), who manage multi-million rand budgets, to expose the significant discrepancies between their official salaries and the opulent lifestyles they lead. Corruption in Polokwane is no longer just a topic of debate; it is now a documented fact from the audit.
ActionSA will not allow these results to get lost behind statistics. We will report all forensic findings collected by our independent investigators to the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), with the intention that they are held criminally and legally responsible. The time for empty promises is over; we are committed to redressing every municipality in Limpopo and putting taxpayer money toward the much-needed services our communities truly deserve.