DM Powell, M O’Donovan, Z Ayele, and T Chigwata
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07 Jul, 2014
Our previous report Operation Clean Audit 2014: Why it failed and what can be learned examined the impact of national government’s policy that all municipalities must achieve clean audits by 2014 (OCA 2014) and identified the risks that arise when policy is not based on statistical analysis. This report shows how measuring consistency in municipal audit outcomes over the five-year term of office of local government can be a useful proxy for analysing, not only the resilience of local government, but also the utility of the provincial and national powers of corrective intervention under s139 of the Constitution.
DM Powell, M O’Donovan, Z Ayele, and T Chigwata
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07 Apr, 2014
In 2009 the new Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Sicelo Shiceka, launched Operation Clean Audit 2014 (OCA 2014). It was the signature intervention in the incoming Zuma government’s plan to “turnaround” local government. The objective of OCA 2014 was that all 283 municipalities (now 278) and provincial departments should achieve a clean audit on their financial statements by 2014.
DM Powell, M O’Donovan and J De Visser
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The Civic Protest Barometer (CPB) measures trends in protest action in South Africa's municipalities. The data covers the period 2007 to 2014 (inclusive) and tracks four variables
DM Powell and M O’Donovan
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The Multi-Level Governance Initiative’s (MLGI) Municipal Audit Consistency Barometer (MAC-B) was launched shortly before the national and provincial elections in May 2014 and the publication in July of the Auditor-General’s report for 2012/13.1 This report (referred to as MAC-B2 2014 update) is the first update of the barometer, and examines the new AG report against the background of the new Government’s approach to improving municipal audit outcomes.
Municipal Audit Consistency Barometer: Audit consistency as measure of resilience in local government
