Litany of malpractices at Public Works exposed (The Star)  SOUTH Africa has lost R35 billion in the last five years – through the wrongful and wasteful construction or leasing of state buildings.

Vernietiging, agteruitgang, bankrotskap, barbarisme. Dit is die kenmerke van die “wonderlike eerste demokrasie” wat Suid Afrika in 1994 mee bekroon is na die gelykstelling van rasse op politieke gebied. Hierdie aandrang vanuit die Internasionale wêreld waarin Brittanje en die VSA die vernaamste rol gespeel het, ten einde  die mensdom te bevry van die “euwel” van apartheid, is besig om Suid Afrika te verteer en soos die Ebola virus na elke land toe te versprei wat die sogenaamde multikulturele beleid toepas.

Op die voorblad van die Afrikanervyandige “The Star” word die vraag gevra wie dit is wat die Suid Afrikaanse belastingbetalers “bloei” teen ‘n tempo van 35 biljoen rand. Hulle beantwoord dit self deur te verwys na ‘n: “Litany of malpractices at Public Works exposed”. Die woord “litany” se betekenis word verklaar as ‘n formele gebed met vasgestelde inhoud, wat deur ‘n voorganger gelei word met beantwoording en herhalings deur die gemeente.  ‘n Litany of malpractice is dus volgens die Star wat ‘n verbete yweraar was in die vestiging van die reënboognasie, ‘n soort godsdiens van wanpraktyke wat dan nou blootgelê sou wees.

Dit verstom ‘n mens dat die media die mensdom as ‘n klomp idiote behandel deur ‘n klimaat te skep, ‘n stelsel help vestig en vir ‘n tyd lank ondersteun, téén die wil van die die  nugteres wat aanhoudend daarteen waarsku, en dan kom met ‘n uitspraak wat direk teenstrydig met hulle aanvanklike ophemeling van die stelsel is waarteen hulle ter aanvang gewaarsku was!

Dit laat ‘n mens onwillekeurig dink aan professor Lyle Rossiter se boek The Liberal Mind, as jy besef dat die vermorsing van 35 biljoen Rand en alles wat daarmee verrig kon word as ‘n soort godsdienstige wanpraktyk tipeer word, wat dan onteenseglik daarop dui dat dit onderwerpend en aansteeklik na ondertoe sal deurwerk en feitlik ongeneeslik is!

Wat nou sterk op die voorgrond tree is die ongeregtigheid wat deur Brittanje en die VSA ondersteun word en waarvoor hulle uiteindelik aanspreeklik gaan wees. Dit sluit dan natuurlik ook elke individu in wat daarby betrokke was en nog is! Die uiterste ellende waarin derduisende mense finansieel verkeer as gevolg van biljoene, wat eskaleer na miljarde rande, kon alles verhoed gewees het om nie eers van die moorde, verkragtings en ander erge misdade te praat nie! Van die totale munisipale inkomste van R68.4bn, word R35bn. die afgelope vyf jaar deur grypsug verteer! As Suid Afrika nie deur hierdie praktyke te gronde gaan nie, dan kan hy voorwaar nie ten gronde gaan nie! Die bewys vir almal wat oë het dat ‘n Swart meerderheid nie bevoeg is om ‘n land soos Suid Afrika kan regeer nie, is al oor en oor bewys en word elke dag wat verbygaan opnuut bevestig!

MUNICIPAL INCOME R68.4BN: STATSSA

 September 29 2014 at 08:07pm

 By SAPA 

Statistician General Pali Lehohla File picture: GCIS

Johannesburg - The municipal total income for the second quarter of 2014 is R68.4 billion, with the main source of income from sales of electricity, Statistics SA said on Monday. Statistician general Pali Lehohla said the income from sales of electricity was 29.5 percent of the total and amounted to R20.2bn. “The increases were mainly due to tariff increases,” he said in Pretoria releasing the Quarterly Financial Statistics of Municipalities (QFSM) report. “The sales of electricity was R1.3 billion higher than the amount received in the previous quarter.”

In the first quarter of 2014 the sale of electricity was R18.9bn. The second quarter saw an increase of 6.9 percent. Other contributors were grants and subsidies R14.9 bn or 21.8 percent; property rates R11.4bn or 16.7 percent; other income R10.5bn or 15.4 percent; sales of water R6.7 bn; sewerage and sanitation R2.7bn; and refuse removal R1.9bn.

Water sales increased by 1.4 percent. The province that consumed the most electricity and water was Gauteng, said Lehohla. “There is some migration to Gauteng that causes some interesting difficulties,” he said. Gauteng contributed R8.5bn or 42 percent to the sales of electricity, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with R3.6bn and Western Cape R3.4bn. The money received in the form of grants and subsidies from provincial and national government decreased by R3.4bn from R18.3bn in the first quarter of the year.

Gauteng received the largest portion with 37 percent, followed by KwaZulu-Natal 18 percent, Western Cape 12 percent and the Eastern Cape 10 percent. He said the province with the lowest share of grants and subsidies was the Northern Cape, which received one percent, about R0.1bn.

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WHO BLED TAXPAYERS OF R35BN?

 Litany of malpractices at Public Works exposed (The Star)

 SOUTH Africa has lost R35 billion in the last five years – through the wrongful and wasteful construction or leasing of state buildings.

 Of this amount, R1.1bn was due to fraud-related activities.   The auditor-general (A-G) has repeatedly highlighted the problem of unauthorised, irregular or fruitless and wasteful expenditure by government departments.   The A-G’s report on national and provincial government for 2012/13 noted a total of R59.4bn in irregular expenditure over the three years from 2010/11 to 2012/13 by all departments. There is no breakdown for individual departments.   Irregular expenditure is spending that doesn’t comply with the law.  The Public Works Department’s financial losses are revealed in confidential documents, including a report for the year-ended March 31, 2014, which The Star has seen.

 Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi was expected to reveal the details at a media briefing today.  The report was due to be released to the public when Nxesi presents it to Parliament tomorrow.  The R34.98bn losses were uncovered during the department’s review of transactions of the Property Management Trading Entity (PMTE), dating back to 2009.  In all, about 1.3 million transactions were reviewed.  The review identified procurement processes to be among the main causes of the public funds haemorrhage.

“As a result of the above review undertaken by the PMTE and the department… there has been a significant increase in the disclosure to R34.98bn. This is a result of supply-chain management processes not adhered to,” it said.  Of this amount, R17bn – or 50 percent of the total losses – was a result of construction-related irregularities, R14.5bn was losses incurred as a result of building leases, and R2.9bn was lost to day-to-day maintenance.  The R17bn relating to construction includes an amount of R3.2bn for the appointment of consultants on the construction projects.   The report shows there had been a steady decrease in the loss of public funds since 2009.

 Of the R35bn, R22.6bn was lost in the 2009/10 financial year.  Previously, R4.9bn was lost in 2010/11, R3.86bn 2011/12. The figure was R3.1bn in 2012/13 and R600m in the last financial year. “This is an indication that the preventative, detective and corrective controls implemented have been effective in identifying and correcting irregular expenditure.” (O ja??)

The litany of malpractices identified include missing procurement documents; missing tax-clearance certificates; non-original tax-clearance certificates; and approving tender documents that did not meet requirements.

 Others include unauthorised payments; unsigned contracts and companies submitting bid documents without the original taxclearance certificates; awarding tenders with bids not advertised within 21 days; and unauthorised deviation from mandated procurement procedures.

“The transactions that have to date been identified to be the result of suspicious practices, amounting to R1.1bn, have all been referred to the Special Investigative Unit, the department’s Fraud Awareness and Investigative Unit,” the report reads.   Nxesi said yesterday his department would ensure that officials who were liable for the transgressions would be accountable. “As public servants, we have a responsibility to ensure accountability for public resources. This has been a cornerstone of our turnaround strategy, which is combating fraud and corruption and mismanagement. “It is absolutely essential that as a department we clean up the mess of irregular expenditure – some of the problems going back as far as 2001,” he said. “We have to hold people accountable, charge them where necessary and subject them to an open disciplinary process. My objective here is to promote good – and accountable – governance within the Department of Public Works. “It starts with transparency and acknowledging the problems that exist. Only then can we analyse and implement solutions.”

Nxesi added that his department was putting in place “more robust financial systems and structures” to ensure that problems did not persist and to ensure good governance.  The documents do not give details about the leases of buildings and constructions. But these losses include those incurred from leases such as the Middestad building in Pretoria businessman Roux Shabangu bought for R220m and valued at R850m, and the R246m upgrades at Nkandla. (Beklemtoning van die AVP)

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The Star 29/09/14 Early Edition