The North West Provincial Treasury has intensified its financial governance support to the Tswaing Local Municipality as part of ongoing interventions to strengthen the municipality’s financial position, compliance and capacity to deliver sustainable services to communities.
During the provincial government’s Thuntsha Lerole Accelerated Service Delivery Programme in Ga-Khunwana, Treasury held a technical working session with Tswaing Local Municipality officials and the Provincial Executive Representative.
The engagement assessed progress on key financial governance and compliance matters affecting the municipality, including the reconciliation of outstanding debt owed by organs of State, with a particular focus on Section 21 schools.
The session also reviewed the municipality’s progress in cleansing its financial data to improve the credibility and reliability of its financial information, compliance with Section 71 and Municipal Standard Chart of Accounts (mSCOA) reporting requirements, and measures to address unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
Officials further considered the municipality’s progress in responding to Section 216 enquiries as part of broader efforts to strengthen financial governance and restore compliance with applicable local government financial prescripts.
Head of Department Ndlela Kunene said Tswaing is among the municipalities affected by National Treasury’s intervention relating to the withholding of the July 2026 Local Government Equitable Share allocation.
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He said the intervention requires affected municipalities to address identified financial-management and compliance deficiencies and provide evidence of corrective action.
“Financial-governance intervention recognises that sustainable municipal service delivery depends not only on addressing immediate service-delivery challenges, but also on strengthening the financial and administrative systems that enable municipalities to plan, fund and maintain those services.
“The Provincial Treasury’s intervention complements these community-facing activities by addressing financial governance matters that affect the municipality’s institutional capacity to deliver and sustain services,” Kunene said.
Thuntsha Lerole is a provincial flagship programme aimed at accelerating the delivery of essential services, particularly in underserved and rural communities, through an integrated, responsive and people-centred approach rooted in the Batho Pele principles. – SAnews.gov.za
Source: Original report at SAnews.gov.za.
