Parliament is forging ahead with plans to get to the bottom of the crisis engulfing the Department of Water and Sanitation. The portfolio committee on water and sanitation and the standing committee on public accounts will on Tuesday consider the terms of reference of the inquiry into the woeful administrative and financial state of the department. Earlier in 2018 the two committees resolved to establish a commission of inquiry into the affairs of the department. Nomvula Mokonyane led the department, whose finances are so dire that it is now broke. Mokonyane was shifted to the communications portfolio following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reshuffle. Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu has also flagged the department for incurring billions of rand in irregular expenditure. The Department of Water and Sanitation is crucial as the country is water-scarce, with the Eastern Cape, the Western Cape and the Northern Cape in the midst of a water crisis. In March, standing committee on public accoun...
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