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Podcast: The Daily Discourse
Episode: Municipal Watch: AG calling for mayors to be held responsible for municipalities
Description: Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke says it's about time that mayors, Speakers and council be held accountable for failures at municipalities. She was speaking during a parliamentary briefing on local government audit outcimes. I guess it's easier said than done because how then do we bypass the politics? Mayors and council are political appointments. We've seen how many municipalities have been voting out mayors before their terms end, then you get coalitions governing the municipalities where deals are struck between political parties. How then do we balance what the Auditor-General is calling for? To help us through this, we are...