AG’s audit results confirm that the Western Cape has zero tolerance for corruption, and that we are leading from the front to deliver clean government.
Yesterday, the Auditor General of South Africa’s consolidated audit results for the 2019/2020 financial year demonstrated yet again that the Western Cape is leading from the front in our country to deliver clean government.
Despite the many challenges created by the national government’s budget cuts and the Covid-19 pandemic, our provincial ministers, heads of department and hard-working officials have demonstrated that corruption and financial mismanagement will never be tolerated in this province.
Today, I thank them all for their unwavering commitment to clean government – and for being a shining light of accountability at a time when it is so desperately needed in our country.
Above all, I thank them for respecting one of the most important principles of government: that the money allocated to us in the Western Cape Government does not belong to us, but to the people of this province.
As Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities, David Maynier, explained, the report found that:
- In the Western Cape, 70% of departments and entities received clean audits, compared to the next best province, Gauteng, with 30% clean audits and the worst performing, the North West, with 4% clean audits.
- The Western Cape accounts for 14 of 44 (32%) provincial clean audit outcomes in the country.
- The Western Cape incurred no unauthorised expenditure, compared to the next best province, Limpopo, with R1.13 million in unauthorised expenditure and the worst performing province, the Eastern Cape, with R1.58 billion in unauthorised expenditure.
- The Western Cape only incurred R118 000 in fruitless and wasteful expenditure, compared to the next best province, Northern Cape, with R9.6 million in fruitless and wasteful expenditure and the worst performing province, Gauteng, with R103.42 million in fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
- The Western Cape only incurred R285 million in irregular expenditure, compared to the next best province, Eastern Cape, with R837.05 million in irregular expenditure and the worst performing province, Kwa-Zulu Natal, with R9.77 billion in irregular expenditure.
- The Western Cape Department of Health has done it again and received a clean audit for the second year in a row - the only health department in the country to do so.
Over this past week, we heard exciting plans for how the people’s money will be spent by the Western Cape Government in this upcoming financial year. These latest results can give the people of our province confidence that as we do so, money will not go to friends of politicians or be lost due to poorly managed systems. Funds will be spent as they are intended, so that we deliver jobs, safety well-being and ultimately hope in the Western Cape.
The full table of results here:
