NEHAWU worried about the spending patterns of our government
29 November 2016
The National Education Health & Allied Workers Union [NEHAWU] is extremely worried about the spending patterns of the current administration.
The report of the Auditor-General on the spending of both the National and Provincial department audits and the Statistics-SA Financial Statistics of Consolidated General Government for the 2014/15 fiscal year paints a bleak picture of how tax payer’s money is misused.
According to the report released by the Auditor-General on November 16, 2016 irregular expenditure by our government has increased by almost 40% since 2013/14 to R46‚36-billion. The report of the Auditor-General singled out the continued non-compliance with supply chain management legislation as the main reason for the increase in irregular expenditure.
Throughout the years NEHAWU has continuously called for both immediate and stringent measures to be put in place in the procurement process that are derived from the constitutional requirements of supply chain management as set out in section 217 of the Constitution. The flouting of constitutional provisions cannot continue unabated while those tasked with dispensing service delivery are pre-occupied with misusing public funds that are meant to contribute to the betterment of lives of the working class and the poor.