Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke addressing the media after tabling her reports into the national and provincial governmentsAuditor-General Tsakani Maluleke addressing the media after tabling her reports into the national and provincial governmentsimprovement in the responsiveness of financial reporting in government
The AG says her office is now seeing a change in how accounting officers and authorities respond to what the office elevates as material irregularities. She says 179 material irregularities on non-compliance and fraud have been identified for national and provincial governments. “There is improved responsibility in the system, accounting officers are responding to MIS, what we are hoping to do is influence them to translate this particular level of responsiveness to responsiveness and action on audit outcomes even those that come out of internal audit, so that over time we strengthen systems and controls. We can prevent similar ones in the future,” says Maluleke.