NATIONAL NEWS - Sassa appears before Parliament today to explain irregular expenditure R1.4 billion, EWN has reported.
Disputed security contracts are at the centre of the latest evidence of growing irregular expenditure at Sassa over the past three financial years. The Auditor-General said Sassa did not take effective steps to prevent the irregular expenditure.
The amount includes millions spent by former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini on the appointment of so-called workstreams, which Treasury found to have been illegal.
The standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) will be probing fruitless and wasteful expenditure during the 2016/17 financial year. MPs are also expected to probe what steps Sassa is taking to ensure its tender for cash payments is above board after Treasury already advised that the first phase should be reviewed before an award is made.
