FF Plus accuses the City of Tshwane of manipulating the budgeting process

# The Freedom Front Plus has expressed concerns about the City of Tshwane’s request to write off a further 1.5-billion-rand in debtors as unauthorised expenditure. In the past 12 months, the metro has recognised nearly six-billion-rand of its debt burden as fictitious or uncollectable. The FF Plus says that if accounting tricks must be employed to remove billions from the financial statements in an effort to balance the books, it means the budget was never genuinely funded. It adds that this amounts to gross manipulation of the budgeting process.