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The rural municipality was among the seven municipalities countrywide that Auditor-General Terence Nombembe declared "clean" for running their finances in the proper way.

It was a rare achievement for a municipality of its stature, considering that Fetakgomo operates on a limited budget of R70million.

The municipality is situated in the rural village of Apel and has a population of about 122000. During the previous two financial years the municipality also received unqualified audit opinions from the auditor-general. But this was the first time it got a clean audit.

Mayor Kukie Sefala has attributed this achievement to a healthy relationship between the municipality's administration and politicians.

She said the municipality also had a team of a committed staff that was always willing to go the extra mile in executing their duties.

"We made sure we employed an internal auditor who would advise us from time to time on how to improve on our performance," Sefala said during an interview.

She said as political head she also sat in on meetings of the audit committee to ensure that things ran smoothly.

"We also have committees such as the executive committee and portfolio committee, IDP steering committee and an audit committee, which ensures that the municipality performs better than other municipalities," she boasted.

Sefala, 38, said she wished the municipality could get an increased budget to meet its service delivery obligations. She was appointed mayor in September last year, taking over from Coleman Marota, who was asked to resign by the ANC.

Sefala said she hoped that with the support given to her by her colleagues, they would be able to keep the momentum of obtaining clean audit reports for as long as she was in charge.

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Jul 5, 2011

Africanist

Keep it up, I respect you for that.
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Jul 5, 2011

tsayaya

She looks so clean too, unlike these other coquettish politicians, keep it up!
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Jul 5, 2011

Sinudeity

Well played Fetakgomo!

Keep up the good work!
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Jul 5, 2011

Newbielicious

Re a go lebogisa sesi. you are very hot yourself. Dont rest,its only the begining,all the best with future goals.
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Jul 5, 2011

jen

Wonderful news! Watch this lady, she will go far.
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Jul 5, 2011

Lekgowa

Fetakgomo is always doing gud. Unlike my Makhuduthamaga municipality, in Fetakgomo one can notice the different in areas like GaNkowana, GaNchabeleng etc. There is lot of improvemet there.
Keep up the good job Sister Mayor. hope ur people willkeep supporting you.
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Jul 5, 2011

Mhungumbye

Why not mentiong us as well, we also had a clean audit at Madibeng Municipality.
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Jul 5, 2011

vicky

Good job my beloved sister. You look innocent and i can see that you are afraid of God. I pray that your colleque will follow you and be dilligent with their work . Keep it up
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Jul 5, 2011

tank

And this time we do not hear Mayor Kukie Sefala's political affiliation because it is good news!
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Jul 5, 2011

BobbieT

Well done - hopefully this will spread to more ANC councils and there will be less wastage of our money - go sister go!
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