Cogta incurred R500million irregular expenditures during the year under review💸 Read the full story 📰📲cogta expenditure
Loose reins at the department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs led to lack of control and irregular expenditure of millions of rands.found Cogta incurred irregular expenditure amounting to R500 million.
According to the AG’s report, Cogta’s annual report indicated no disciplinary process was undertaken.Among the many issues was the municipal demarcation board, which incurred R500 000 when the appointed service provider’s tax matters were not in order. “The root cause was lack of controls to ensure investigations were concluded timeously and irregular expenditure reported accordingly.”
Chief economist at Efficient Group Dawie Roodt said the money would have been much better spent in other places.
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