The Cabinet has called for heads to roll as it cracks down on fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure at municipalities. Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu, addressing the media after a Cabinet meeting yesterday said: 'We can't just continue condemning and condemning, we should have an action plan.' Mthembu said the government wanted to see action taken against habitual offenders in municipalities, according to TimesLIVE. Last month, Auditor-General (AG) Kimi Makwetu said audit outcomes were deteriorating in municipalities. Of the 257 municipalities, he found only 18 received clean audits. Mthembu said municipal officials who had been implicated in wrongdoing would have to pay back the money, as the AG was now empowered in law to have teeth. 'Cabinet said heads must roll for those who continue to spend fruitlessly, spend wastefully and spend irregularly,' he said. Local Government Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been tasked by Cabinet to work with municipalities to turn things around. Cabinet has said the Minister, working with relevant municipalities, must find a way of curbing these maladministration tendencies in our system of local government, said Mthembu. Cabinet also addressed the e-tolls dispute and has given Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and Gauteng Premier David Makhura a month to come up with a plan to deal with e-tolls in the province. The trio has been involved in a public spat over the matter, with Mboweni saying e-tolls were here to stay. Makhura has insisted that the user-pay projects on the province's highways were overburdening consumers.