EThekwini Municipality Mayor councillor Mxolisi Kaunda and council speaker councillor Thabani Nyawose are faced with opposition to the voting for the RMS passing in the council. Picture: Theo Jeptha/ African News Agency(ANA)
Durban — The eThekwini Municipality is contemplating writing off R727 million in unauthorised expenditure on the City’s Revenue Management System (RMS).
This comes after eThekwini Municipal Public Accounts Committee, on Tuesday, resolved that the irregular expenditure incurred on the project in the amount of R727 251 789.00 be written off on the basis that the municipality had derived value from the system as it was currently utilised as revenue billing and receipting system.
It further said that in the event that the amount that could be recommended for recovery had been prescribed.
The committee said that having been presented with irregular expenditure amounting to R727 251 789.00, which had been incurred on the RMS project, the City sought further information about the process undertaken to procure the system. It said that this included that the Auditor-General deemed all expenditure incurred on the project irregular.
In its deliberations, the City was advised as follows:
DA caucus leader councillor Thabani Mthethwa said that for years, the DA has raised numerous red flags to the council about the funding of the system.
IFP leader in eThekwini, Mdu Nkosi, added his voice, saying that the IFP has long been warning eThekwini against the system that was failing.
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