{"id":205538,"date":"2025-08-26T17:43:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-council-ignores-27-out-of-28-audit-red-flags\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:43:34","slug":"zimbabwe-harare-council-ignores-27-out-of-28-audit-red-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-harare-council-ignores-27-out-of-28-audit-red-flags\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Harare Council Ignores 27 Out of 28 Audit Red Flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Harare&#8217;s residents have accused the city council of gross negligence after the Auditor General&#8217;s 2023 annual report revealed that the local authority failed to act on 27 of 28 audit findings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Harare Residents Association (HRA) said the council had made virtually no progress in addressing longstanding governance and financial irregularities flagged in last year&#8217;s audit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The only recommendation implemented was the preparation of inflation-adjusted financial statements, in line with requirements&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508260458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare&#8217;s residents have accused the city council of gross negligence after the Auditor General&#8217;s 2023 annual report revealed that the local authority failed to act on 27 of 28 audit findings. The Harare Residents Association (HRA) said the council had made virtually no progress in addressing longstanding governance and financial irregularities flagged in last year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,7513,6158,21525,500,18126,257,10722,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-audit","tag-council","tag-flags","tag-harare","tag-ignores","tag-news","tag-red","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}