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National Fury Over South African Crooked Officials: Right From The Top Exercise
7 July 2009
Angry MPs have rebuked provincial directors-general for failing to discipline officials who have benefited from government tenders. The Public Service Commission has also acknowledged that some senior managers in national departments have failed to disclose their personal interests in companies that do business with the government. A damning report compiled by the auditor-general after a two-year investigation and released in August last year revealed that, between April 2005 and January 2007, provincial governments paid R540-million to companies and close corporations whose directors were government employees or their spouses. The KwaZulu-Natal government paid out R33-million to 369 companies or close corporations that had ties with 369 of its employees. The provincial DGs were summoned before Parliament's spending watchdog, the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), to say whether they had taken action against thousands of officials whose names and companies had been listed by the auditor-general. Scopa members were incensed when one provincial director-general after another told them the offending officials were hardly being disciplined or that provinces could not detect such transactions. Mavis Matladi, of the United Christian Democratic Party, said it was unacceptable that almost a year after the report had been released, provincial governments had yet to act against those named. "It's highly unacceptable," she said. "The report is dated August 2008 and you are sitting here telling us nothing has been done. It's either you are not taking us seriously or your jobs seriously." Mandlenkosi Mbili (ANC) was angry that the Gauteng director-general, Mallele Petje, was not present and had sent the acting head of the provincial treasury to represent him. Mbili warned senior provincial officials present to take Scopa seriously and to act on the auditor-general's report. "They are arrogant and something needs to be done, we can't continue like this." The Public Service Commission said it would bring a report detailing the level of non-compliance by senior managers in national departments with regulations that stipulate they should disclose their interests in private companies. Mark Steele (DA) urged national departments to act against officials implicated in the commission's report.
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