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Figure 7.1: Reporting and oversight lines for municipal finance<br />

Financial and<br />

Fiscal Commission<br />

National Treasury<br />

Auditor-General<br />

Council (financial and<br />

oversight committees)<br />

Municipal<br />

administration<br />

Reporting<br />

Advice and oversight<br />

• The National Treasury collates and publishes consolidated quarterly reports on municipal<br />

expenditure against budgets and annual financial statements that reflect the state of a<br />

municipality’s finances.<br />

• The Auditor-General is responsible for assuring the quality of financial and performance<br />

reporting systems across the public sector.<br />

• The Financial and Fiscal Commission advises and makes recommendations to Parliament,<br />

provincial legislatures, organised local government and other organs of state on financial and<br />

fiscal matters. It supports the creation and maintenance of an effective, equitable and<br />

sustainable system of intergovernmental fiscal relations in South Africa, which it does through<br />

producing and publishing a series of technical and review reports on financial themes.<br />

The financial departments in the nine <strong>cities</strong> all have a similar structure, with a Chief Financial Officer<br />

(CFO) responsible for managing the teams and divisions that deal with at least the following functions:<br />

budgets, treasury, revenue management and SCM. Financial teams tend to have significant influence<br />

in the city administrations, and the Member of the Mayoral Committee responsible for finance is<br />

always a senior member of the Mayoral Executive Committee. Figures 7.2 and 7.3 give two examples<br />

of how the finance function is structured in the <strong>cities</strong>.<br />

242 State of South African Cities Report 2016

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