Jozi waits to see if it spent its billions

The City of Johannesburg is hoping that it won't have to explain to the Treasury why it failed to spend billions of rands allocated to it for critical infrastructure projects. City officials - chief among them Geoff Makhubo, the member of the mayoral committee overseeing the city's finances - are waiting for a final tally of the money spent, or earmarked for expenditure, in the hope of reporting respectable figures to the Treasury.