Full-scale inquiry into water affairs to go ahead
The ANC study group on water and sanitation says it supports the decision for a full investigation into the department
The Treasury, Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and auditor-general will form part of a full-scale inquiry into the crisis at the Department of Water and Sanitation. The department was previously led by Nomvula Mokonyane, and is now broke. Mokonyane was shifted to the communications portfolio following a Cabinet reshuffle in February. The auditor-general has flagged the department for incurring billions of rand in irregular expenditure. Water and Sanitation is crucial as the country is water scarce, with the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape and the Northern Cape in the grip of a prolonged dry spell. But concerns were raised about the department’s overdraft of R2.9bn that it took with the Reserve Bank. It has since reportedly reduced the overdraft to R1.9bn. A joint standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) and water committee met on Wednesday to implement the resolution of the water and sanitation committee in its budgetary review and recommendation report, which called for a commi...
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