PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
DA questions water department’s decision to pay bonuses
The DA has questioned the department of water and sanitation’s decision to pay generous staff bonuses in the 2017/2018 fiscal year, given that the department had failed to meet several of its targets and received a qualified audit from the auditor-general. The department’s annual report, tabled in parliament last week, shows it paid out R31.5m in bonuses in 2017/2018. Yet its performance has limped along for the past five years, according to an analysis presented to parliament’s portfolio committee on water and sanitation on Tuesday by Stephen Kheleli, a senior manager in the auditor-general’s office. It received a qualified audit in four out of the five years under review, and racked up steadily increasing unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. The auditor-general’s office identified R526m in unauthorised expenditure, R546m in fruitless and wasteful expenditure, and R3.6bn in irregular expenditure in 2017/2018.
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