THE Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional
Affairs has said any hope of receiving a clean audit will be gone if it has
to pay KZN izinduna more than R125 million.
Izinduna are the leaders in villages and they report to
amakhosi.
Acting head of the department Thando Tubane told a
finance portfolio committee at the legislature yesterday that the dream might
remain a pipe dream.
Tubane said the department will not be able to account
for the millions it will pay to izinduna when auditorgeneral Kimi Makwetu
reveals his findings at the end of the financial year.
The department is expected to pay half of the R252,3
million izinduna salary bill.
Provincial government has insisted that it does not have
the funds to pay izinduna despite President Jacob Zuma signing the
proclamation in 2014.
MEC Nomusa DubeNcube had even gone to Zuma and the
commission to say that the department does not have the money.
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