The Department of Human Settlements continues to lag behind its targets, and housing backlogs persist despite it becoming more efficient with spending. The department’s director-general, Mbulelo Tshangana, told the portfolio committee on human settlements that it had delivered 19,529 title deeds to new homeowners for the 2015-16 financial year. However, this is against an annual target of 112,600 new title deeds and a medium-term strategic framework target of 563,000 new title deeds. He said 195,549 subsidy housing units had been delivered between 2014 and 2016, but that this marked a shortfall of 143,270. The department was cautioned by auditor-general Kimi Makwetu about weaknesses in its procurement processes, late payment to suppliers, and flagged irregular or wasteful expenditure at its entities. Tshangana told the committee that, in the new year, the department’s issuing of title deeds had performed poorly and that measures were being put in place to allow for a recovery. "The ...
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