Africa-Press – South-Africa. In its quest for stability, better service delivery and ensuring that municipal resources are utilised accordingly, the EFF in Gauteng has welcomed a staff audit in the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality.
The audit will focus on reviewing employees, the positions they fill and the quality of their work in those positions.
It will also ensure that people are paid equally and fairly, and that lazy and ghost workers are dealt with.
The EFF, in a statement on Thursday, expressed its approval for the process and said the operation was necessary to ensure that senior managers and municipal staff use available resources to place confidence in public services and tackle corruption. The party said:
“This staff audit will include the review of employee files to determine their eligibility to work in the posts they are registered to; to check if their job descriptions are aligned with the actual work they are performing; to determine whether employee wages are in line with the departments’ staffing levels and models; to ensure that staff members working at the same level are paid fairly; to assess the performance of the staff members in terms of executing their required duties; and to check whether the municipality is paying real and existing workers who report to work instead of ghost employees.”
Reiterating its non-negotiable stance on corruption and urgency for accountability, the EFF encouraged other municipalities across Gauteng to invest in conducting audits of their own.
“We trust that this audit will serve its purpose in clamping down on any corrupt elements which may exist and ensuring that public services are aligned with the agenda of service delivery in the municipality.”
The party’s support for the staff audit aligns with its support of the recent Auditor-General’s report on local municipalities, which disclosed that Ekurhuleni was one of 38 municipalities which produced clean audits.
The EFF, which has been tackling administrative issues in the municipality, has maintained the necessity for regular audits to be conducted to reduce the mismanagement of funds, which impacts service delivery.
The EFF, which is conducting an independent audit of the five departments it is responsible for in Ekurhuleni, found that only 32 of 103 waste compactors were available for service, negatively impacting waste removals.
The party has since opened a case for the missing compactors, adding it would open more criminal cases for other infractions.
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