DA KZN: Committee of Enquiry is crunch time for Education MEC
20 November 2014
The DA welcomes the announcement by KZN Education MEC, Peggy Nkonyeni, of a Committee of Enquiry into irregular expenditure within the department.
The enquiry comes after it was revealed that the department will over spend on its budget by an estimated R700million - mostly on salaries and operational costs - despite having the largest budget in the entire province.
The department's financial crisis is not new. The DA has been calling for a turnaround strategy for some time.
Education in our province has never been in such a catastrophic state and the results speak for themselves. Both the SCOPA hearing and Treasury Mid-term review clearly showed that it is in dire straits with a R500 million overspend on employees' salaries - R300 million of which is to be diverted from infrastructure - and an estimated R200 million overspend on operational costs.