The Siyanda District Municipality established it’s own Municipal Public Accounts Committee better known as MPAC. The MPAC will assist Council to hold the executive and municipal entities to account and to ensure the efficient and effective use of municipal resources. By so doing, the MPAC would help to increase Council and public awareness of the financial and performance issues of the municipality.
MPAC is established in terms of section 79 of the Municipal Structures Act and performs an oversight function on behalf of council and is not a duplication of other committees of council, such as the Finance Committee or that of the Audit Committee.
MPAC will undertake and manage similar functions and responsibilities for municipalities, as undertaken by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in the national and provincial legislatures, except for certain powers regarding subpoena of individuals. In the case of any irregular expenditure or any fruitless and wasteful expenditure incurred by the municipalities or municipal entities, the MPAC will have the right to call upon the accounting officer of the municipality to appear before it to provide information or clarity.
