DA proposal will see KZN government Departments submit monthly finance reports to Finance Committee
2 December 2019
A proposal by the Democratic Alliance (DA) has led to the tabling of a resolution which will force KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Government Departments to submit their basic cash flow projections on expenditure and vacant posts to their relevant committees on a monthly basis.
The resolution was adopted by the KZN Finance portfolio committee during the recent unaudited close-out reports for the province. The move comes after a R19 million underspend on conditional grants by the provincial government - money which must now be returned to National Government and which is lost to the province.
The DA condemns this under-expenditure in the strongest possible terms. This resolution is a last-ditch attempt to avoid this pitfall.
Under expenditure impacts heavily on KZN’s strategic goals and objectives, while the trend by this provincial government of underspending to survive the outer years is an increasingly dangerous trap.