Rodgers, the new finance MEC, said he would cut subsistence and travel by 25%. In the last financial year, under the ANC, R1 billion was spent on S&T
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“We must state that this government will implement a strict zero-tolerance approach to non-compliance to treasury regulations and prescripts. We want to ensure accountability,” Rodgers added. That cut is expected to significantly impede provincial treasury’s ability to hire more accountants and auditors to assist departments, municipalities and state-owned entities to achieve clean audits and ensure financial governance. Rodgers said it was imperative that coats were cut according to the fiscal cloth, and that service delivery and clean governance remained a priority.
The provincial treasury is often lauded as a beacon of good governance among other KwaZulu-Natal government departments, none of which have escaped scrutiny for various corruption scandals. This year marked the 16th consecutive clean audit for the department, said Rodgers. The provincial treasury is known as an historic under spender — one of the key reasons being the high level of vacancies in the department — but Rodgers said that preliminary year-end results indicated “that we have spent 98% of our budget at the end of the 2023-24 year and achieved 89% of all targets set, whilst a further 15 targets were overachieved due to the increase in demand for services”.
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