ARTICLES RELATING TO
GOVERNMENT SPENDING
There is no regulation in place for municipal managers' salaries, with some earning more than President Jacob Zuma, according to a report.
Parliament spent about R16m on tea, coffee, cool drinks and snack platters for politicians last year, according to a report.
The department of public works is investigating all its Prestige projects, including the R206m upgrade of President Jacob Zuma’s private homestead at Nkandla.
Government spending needs to produce better quality results and the culture of corruption must be stemmed, says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
The auditor general has been unable to trace two wooden poles which were listed in the Madibeng Municipality asset register as having cost R3m, according to a report.
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has welcomed a court ruling making grandparents who care for their grandchildren eligible for foster care grants.
The policy to regulate how the president and deputy president spend public money cannot be kept hush-hush, the DA says.
Wasteful spending of government resources must end, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says.
The national education department has allocated R175m to the KwaZulu-Natal education department and R60m to the Free State after Limpopo failed to spend it on infrastructure.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions says it is appalled by the auditor general's latest audit, which showed R24.8bn has disappeared due to wasteful expenditure.
Wasteful government spending of R24.8bn could have been used for numerous projects to the benefit of South Africans, the SA Institute of Race Relations says.
Prison authorities have defended their spending of R2bn on consultants, saying the bulk of the costs were incurred on the core mandate and business of the department.
More than R49m was spent on consultants involved in building projects at President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead, Democratic Alliance MP Anchen Dreyer says.
The Gauteng treasury has denied reports that taxpayers will have to pay R7.5m in the next three years to maintain the official residence of Premier Nomvula Mokonyane.
Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane's official house, which has cost more to maintain than it did to buy nine years ago, should be sold, the DA says.
