We, The Voting Public

Your invoice is approved. The work is done. Then the council changes, and nobody can say who authorised it.
Tomorrow, South Africans vote in the municipal elections. For anyone who supplies a municipality, the real story starts the morning after the votes are counted.
If previous elections are anything to go by, expect purges of city managers and CFOs, frozen contract awards, delayed payments, and forensic reviews of deals signed in the outgoing council’s final months. The ballot changes the people in the council chambers. It does not rewrite the contracts in your filing cabinet.

The Auditor-General’s latest municipal report shows how little firm ground there is. Only 39 of 257 municipalities earned a clean audit. 116 ran on unfunded budgets for four years in a row.

So here is the question. If the official who signed your contract is gone next week, could you prove your work was authorised, funded and properly procured?
We have put together a 15-point checklist for the next 100 days.

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