Question NW556 to the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
11 March 2021 - NW556
Mphithi, Mr L to ask the Minister in The Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
(a) Who has she found to have been responsible for wrongly allocating funds to Programme 4 instead of Programme 5 in Quarter 3 and (b) what steps will her Office take to ensure that these errors do not recur?
Reply:
a) The officials responsible for the misallocation is the Director Finance, Senior State Accountant and the Accounting Clerk. The misallocation does not relate to allocation of funds. It relate to a payment of an invoice that was erroneously paid from programme 4 instead of programme 5.
b) The 3 officials take responsibility for the honest mistake as this is the first time such a mistake occurred in the past 9 financial years and the Director Finance already had a discussion with the other 2 officials regarding the seriousness of misallocation of amounts and indicated that the 3 of them must take the responsibility for the mistake and going forward all payments must be thoroughly checked to ensure that similar cases will not recur.
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Approved by Minister
Ms M Nkoana-Mashabane, MP
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