Question NW3842 to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
27 November 2023 - NW3842
Opperman, Ms G to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
What are the reasons that her department failed to implement post-audit action plans relating to the Community Work Programme as the department regressed from 73% to 63% in achieving predetermined objectives and consistently failed to obtain an unqualified audit opinion?
Reply:
The failure in the implementation of the Post Audit Action Plan (PAAP) is mainly related to asset management as it is a qualification area. The asset management was previously outsourced and was taken over during the latter part of the last financial year due to poor performance of the service provider. All the Asset Management activities in the PAAP were assigned to the service provider. These activities have now been taken over and refined in the current PAAP and are being implemented by the department and there is progress reported in the implementation of the current PAAP.
Furthermore, the department has significantly reduced the qualification items in the audit report and is only left with one item (asset management) which is putting every effort and resources to address. We have established teams to deal with assets on site. We have brought in capacity from other units to support the Asset Management Unit. We are confident that this matter will be completely resolved before the end March 2024.
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