Not all doom and gloom for Eastern Cape Municipalities

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 Eastern Cape Local Government MEC, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, says there is much to be recognised in Eastern Cape municipalities.

That's in spite of the fact that none of the province's 43 local governments had received clean audit reports from the provincial auditor general.

Qoboshiyane was speaking to Algoa FM News at Wednesday's Vuna Awards, which aims to seek out those municipalities that show innovation and excellence in fulfilling their service delivery mandate.

"There is much to be recognised, a number of municipalities, although there are structural challenges, we can see a lot of improvements in various areas, although clean audits are not yet obtained you can see the endevours of improving of the systems of accountability. The AG is now able to say many of the municipalities are able to be audited" he said.

MEC Qoboshiyane also says there's been a giant leap in municipalities when it comes to trends in expenditure, particularly of the municipal structure's grant.

He says this was not the case before.

Qoboshiyane says the statistician general also noted that there's been a bit of an improvement in the provision of basic services.

"Those things happen in the environment of functional municipalities, therefore we cannot sit here and say there must be no lessons learned. There are municipalities consistently that are always presenting good and quality results out of audit. There are regressions but we see benchmark good performance sustain what is good and learn lessons out of those things"