Ann Eveleth
FINANCIAL irregularities of R6.7-million were unearthed by the KwaZulu-Natal auditor general during a check on the former KwaZulu government’s 1992/93 budget, the provincial Public Accounts Committee (PAC) heard this week.
Accounts chairman NP MP Tino Volker said Auditor General Chris Foster reported “43 cases of theft and irregularities involving motor vehicles and cash to the value of that figure”.
“In 30 incidents involving R2 728 181, officials were implicated,” the report said. Volker said the auditor general’s report on “irregularities and unauthorised expenditures” formed part of two separate reports on the 1992/93 financial statements of the former KwaZulu government and former Natal Provincial Administration.
“In the KwaZulu case, there were cases where staff members were implicated in theft,” he said.
In Natal, Volker said there was one case where a pension payment official, believing the office security was lax, had taken home pension money totalling R166 630, only to be robbed in front of his home.
Volker said the accounts committee would meet again today “to decide how we are going to report on the Auditor General’s report when it meets on November 29.”