In 2013/14, the municipality requested a roll-over of R18.6 million and only R4.2 million was approved due to the municipality having insufficient funds in their bank account. About R14.4 million was not cash-backed by the municipality and hence the reduced approval of the rollover.
During the 2014/15 financial year, the unspent amount was R7.8 million as disclosed in the pre-audit annual financial statements. From this amount, only R5.8 million was requested to be rolled over. Due to the municipality’s inability to again fully cash-back their unspent conditional grants, only an amount of R3.3 million was approved as this was the balance in their bank account. The inability by the municipality to back up their rollover request with sufficient cash in the bank is an indication of a possible misuse of the conditional grants.
(3) The National Treasury is currently providing support through the Provincial Treasury due to Thabazimbi being a delegated municipality to the province. In the past year, the National Treasury engaged the municipality on numerous occasions regarding their poor performance on the MIG. The National Treasury approved a request by the municipality to repay their unspent 2013/14 MIG in four instalments.
Currently, the National Treasury in consultation with Provincial government and the National department of Cooperative Governance, are in a process of moving the MIG funds to their district (Waterberg District Municipality) due to poor performance. The district will assist the municipality to fast track the implementation and payments of projects that are on the ground.
With regard to the unspent 2014/15 MIG allocation of R4.5 million which has to be paid back to the National Revenue Fund, the National Treasury is considering assisting the municipality in spreading the unspent funds to be paid over a foreseeable period of time. This will be the second consecutive occasion that the municipality would be allowed to pay the unspent grant funds in instalments.
Annex A
Thabazimbi Local Municipality: Municipal Infrastructure Grant |
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MIG |
Allocation |
Adjustment |
Revised allocation |
Expenditure |
Roll over request |
|
R'000 |
R'000 |
R'000 |
R'000 |
R'000 |
2011/2012 |
34 750 |
|
34 750 |
22 085 |
No roll over request |
2012/2013 |
42 153 |
|
42 153 |
42 153 |
No roll over request(full expenditure) |
2013/2014 |
40 019 |
-12 758 |
27 261 |
6 321 |
R18 639 requested: only R4169 approved because of insufficient funds in the bank |
2014/2015 |
32 926 |
-19 756 |
13 170 |
5 290 |
R5,888m requested, only R3,300 approved due to insufficient funds. |
2015/2016 |
27 172 |
|
27 172 |
0 |
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