We continue  our Municipal Watch feature series looking at issues of accountability and oversight at municipalities. As you've heard over the years how often the Auditor General announces her findings on so many of the problematic municipalities that have collapsed due to corruption and incompetent officials, but nothing happens after that. What is it that makes accountability and oversight so difficult at local government level? Today, we get the perpective from the office of the Auditor General getting to understand how she goes about her work. How do they pinpoint which municipality to audit? How do they get municipal officials to coorporate? What are their powers?  How do they bypass politics and what would they say are the biggest challenges they face when auditing municipalities? To share their insights, we are joined by…

Guest: Ms Bongi Ngoma - Head of Audit in the office of the Auditor General of South Africa