Cape Town Mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, has blamed the breaking of the City’s three-year clean audit streak on among others, procurement and contract management processes which he described as ‘a minor technical issue’.
The Auditor-General recently gave the City of Cape Town an Unqualified Audit Opinion with findings.
Hill-Lewis says there is no need for an internal investigation.
Hill-Lewis says, “These are very, very minor technical issues. None of them relate to finances at all; they all relate to process issues. For example, one of them is that we disqualified a company from tendering to the City, because they had tendered in the past and failed to do the job and had been fired; they had just changed their company name and thought that they could tender again and we said that they could not. Our job is to protect the residents of Cape Town from bad and shoddy contractor work. We struggle with a lot of contractors that do shoddy work and we want to disqualify more of them, they should not be able to work for the city if they do shoddy work.”
Video | AG gives City of Cape Town unqualified audit opinion
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