A disregard for the rule of law also saw the country lose R14 billion through payment of goods not received
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.A disregard for the “rule of law”, highlighted by auditor general Tsakani Maluleke, resulted in more than R38.8 billion of overspending by government departments and public entities.
“What that tells us — the stickiness of this irregular balance — is that the culture of tolerating non-compliance prevails,” she said, adding that accountability measures had to be taken on defective officers. But, said Maluleke, the amended audit legislation allowed the organisation to track “material irregularities” — payments for goods and services that were not received, unfair, uneconomical and uncompetitive procurement, value for money not received, as well as state assets not safeguarded, among a host of other issues.
“Yes, we can celebrate that we’ve been able to protect resources of R3.39 billion,” she added, acknowledging that there was a huge disparity between R14.3 billion and R3.39 billion. She gave the example of the energy and water public sector, where R700 million was paid to a service provider for training “that was not delivered”. She added that, after her office raised the issue, work was under way to try to recover the lost funds.
“This past year, R11 billion went through the Compensation Fund and the question has got to be: what will it take to get the Compensation Fund properly attended to in terms of moving it out of this space, where accountability, transparency and oversight and good governance are clearly being ignored?”
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