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Premier Zamani Saul accompanied by Members of the Executive Council (MECs), met with the Auditor-General of South Africa, Tsakane Maluleke and her team on 14 October 2025. The meeting was part of the AG’s nationwide roadshow focusing on strengthening Provincial Governance and addressing issues identified in the audits.
The Northern Cape Provincial Government continues to register progress in strengthening financial governance as demonstrated by improved audit outcomes for the 2024-25 financial year. The Audit outcomes reflect that there are no disclaimers or adverse findings. This achievement is a direct result of unwavering commitment to transparency, accountability and clean governance.
The Province has twenty (20) institutions, who were subjected to an audit by the AGSA and the results were as follows:
- Nine (9) institutions received clean audit opinions, an improvement from 8 in the previous audit cycle.
- Seven (7) Institutions with Unqualified audit outcomes
- Two (2) institutions received qualified audit opinions.
- Two (2) audits are still outstanding
This marks an improvement from the previous cycle and signals the effectiveness of deliberate, intensified oversight, collaboration, and leadership commitment across the provincial administration. Notably, the oversight institutions, namely the Office of the Premier (OTP), Provincial Treasury (PT), and the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature (NCPL), have each maintained clean audit outcomes for more than five consecutive years. This consistent performance demonstrates the province’s strong leadership, effective controls and an embedded culture of compliance within its core governance structures.
Before the release of the audit outcomes, the province convened a successful quarterly audit rectification engagement led by Premier Zamani Saul. The session brought together Members of the Executive Council, Accounting Officers, Chief Financial Officers and officials from Treasury & Office of the Premier. The session served as a platform for reflection, collaboration and decisive action towards entrenching a culture of sound financial management across the provincial administration.
The engagement reaffirmed government’s collective resolve to:
- Reinforcing consequence management and accountability mechanisms;
- address root causes of recurring audit findings;
- sustain clean administration through proactive governance support and
- align financial management improvements with service delivery priorities.
During this session, Premier Saul commended departments and entities that achieved clean and unqualified audit outcomes, while urging those with qualified opinions to accelerate the implementation of their audit action plans.
Premier Saul emphasised the continued support from the Provincial Treasury through its CFO Forums, which coordinates coaching and mentoring between well-performing departments and those requiring improvement. Furthermore, the Premier underscored the importance of peer learning from departments that have consistently maintained clean audit outcomes. These engagements will be held quarterly to monitor progress made by departments, with oversight from Internal Audit, the Audit Committee, and the Executive Council.
Departments were encouraged to build on lessons learned and o intensify their efforts towards full compliance with the PFMA and other prescripts.
The Provincial Government remains steadfast in its pursuit of clean, ethical and transparent administration by ensuring accountability to the citizens of the Northern Cape.
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