Cape Town’s City Council today adopted the metro’s latest Annual Report for 2023/24, which includes a clean audit report from the Auditor General (AG). In an address to City Council, Mayor Hill-Lewis welcomed yet another successive clean audit for the City. Read more below:
‘Achieving this clean audit outcome from the AG takes enormous effort and discipline across every single department and office of the City. It’s no easy feat, underscored by Cape Town being the only metro to obtain a clean audit last year for 2022/23. This latest clean audit is far more than a symbolic award, it has real-world impact in delivering better services for residents.
‘Good governance is what enables us to make SA-record infrastructure investments, maintain the country’s lowest unemployment rate, and sustain the widest free basic services reach of any metro. This is how we are building a city of hope for all, and helping more people out of poverty and into work over time,’ said Mayor Hill-Lewis.
‘The City’s Annual Report 2023/24 further notes that Cape Town was the top-ranked metro in both the Municipal Financial Sustainability Index 2024, as well as the Governance Performance Index (GPI) 2024, which evaluates South Africa’s municipalities across five indicators of good governance. Thanks to all our dedicated officials who ensure we spend public funds responsibly and to the benefit of Capetonians,’ said Councillor Siseko Mbandezi, Mayoral Committee Member for Finance.
Service delivery highlights from the City’s 2023/24 Annual Report include:
· An SA-record R9,4 bn spent on infrastructure (up from R6,9bn in 22/23), plus a further R4,8bn spent on repairs and maintenance
· 186km of roads resurfaced and continued progress on the MyCiTi bus service new route expansion linking Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and various other suburbs with Wynberg and Claremont, investing more than R6bn over three years
· Approximately 129km of sewer and water pipe replacements, a Cape Town-record for single year replacements
· Saving R348m through energy-efficient municipal operations, using 303GWh less electricity
· Municipal police staged 1 021 drug raids across Cape Town resulting in 2 094 arrests, showing the value of support to SAPS
· Over 210 000 residents assisted with indigent and pensioner relief, as well as the widest reach for free basic electricity and water of all South African metros as per StatsSA’s non-financial census of Municipalities (March 2024)
· Released well-located land to grow the social rental housing pipeline to over 12 000 units.
· More than doubled the number of annual title deed beneficiaries to 4800 (up from 2370 in 22/23)
· The metro helped around 750 people to leave the streets through Safe Space transitional shelter and NGO-run night shelters, with a further 1 400 referrals for social services, EPWP work, and personal development programmes