DA’s Johannesburg mayoral candidate says City of Johannesburg violated municipal finance laws [SOUND]

# DA’s Johannesburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille says the City of Johannesburg has violated key municipal finance laws and ignored repeated warnings from the National Treasury. In a media briefing, Zille said a letter from Finance minister Enoch Godongwana outlined several breaches, including passing an unfunded budget and failing to prevent irregular and wasteful spending. She warns these breaches are deepening the city’s financial crisis and could trigger further intervention by Treasury: