Irregular spending rockets to R45.6bn
In the past year alone, it increased 55% — and that’s not a final total, Kimi Makwetu says
Irregular expenditure among national and provincial departments, as well as their entities, has increased 55% since the previous financial year to R45.6bn, says Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu. But this amount could be higher as it does not include the irregular expenditure of entities and departments, the audit outcomes of which are still outstanding, such as the Passenger Rail Agency of SA, which recorded irregular expenditure of almost R14bn in the previous year. “If you have an instrument in supply chain management, the minute you have a series of deviations to that rule … you would have to review the sustainability of that rule in the first place. You may need to relook at the prescripts. “Many people have different reasons to overlooking prescripts,” Makwetu said. He told reporters that his office was willing to hear merit-based disagreements from accounting officers of state entities, but that most who disputed his findings had failed to give credible counterarguments and merel...
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