Executive summary
of this process was the establishment of smooth,
well-functioning structures whose leadership
will drive the new strategic plan over the next five
years to 2022.
Mandate 4: Support and advice
SALGA’s fourth mandate involves providing
support and advice to members on a range
of issues to assist effective execution of their
municipal mandate. In respect of the fourth
SALGA mandate, areas of the professionalisation
framework were implemented and monitored in
the following pillars:
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Service orientation;
Leadership and management. SALGA
established the municipal leadership and
competency assessment centre using
a combination of standards to offer a
robust assessment;
Technical. A report into the state of
human resource management and
development report of all municipalities
was developed;
Institutional. Profiling outcomes and
information was collected and analysed,
from which two types of plans were
developed.
The emerging three year trend of local government audit outcomes, as at 15 February 2017, is
that although there has been steady progress in improving audit outcomes over the years, many
municipalities have not been able to maintain the improvements made in prior years and a large
number of regressions have occurred in the 15/16 financial year. This indicates that the sustainability
and maintenance of audit improvements needs a special focus if the picture of audit outcomes wants
to be positive. There is also a sharp increase in audits not finalised by the legislated date, 30 November,
which is largely due to the late submission of annual financial statements and delays as a result of
differences/ disagreements with the office of the Auditor-General.
National trend audit outcomes per category
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SALGA ANNUAL REPORT
2016/17