AUDITOR-General Kimi Makwetu has taken Parliament to task over its latest financial report, which contains material errors, as well as misstatements on its performance on public participation and international engagements.The report will be subject to the scrutiny of MPs on Friday after tabling. Members informed Secretary to Parliament Gengezi Mgidlana that the legislature’s 2015-16 annual report needed to be tabled in line with the Financial Management of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Act.The act stipulates that Parliament and provincial legislatures should table their budgets within a strict timeframe to allow the Treasury and the legislatures an opportunity to scrutinise and comment on the reports.However, Mgidlana has reportedly insisted that this clause in the act did not apply to Parliament, but to provincial legislatures only.Opposition MPs are also keen to see if Mgidlana paid any further money to his own office or towards his own travel expenses.This follows report...
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