While the KwaZulu Natal Premier’s office has received a clean audit for the 2022/2023 financial year, it has acknowledged a presidential proclamation that has authorised the Special Investigating Unit to investigate the office for alleged unlawful and improper conduct on certain projects and programmes that took place between April 2007 and July 2023.
KZN Premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube extended her congratulations to the province’s Director General, Dr Nonhlanhla Mkhize, and all officials after the latest report of the Auditor General, declared the Office of the Premier to have “utilised taxpayers’ funds in line with all prescripts of the laws and regulations of the Republic of South Africa”.
“The Office of the Premier has obtained a clean audit for the financial year 2022/2023. This demonstrates our commitment to good, clean, ethical and transparent governance and our resolve, as the Apex office, to steer the provincial Administration in the right direction,” said Ms Dube-Ncube.
“It is important to emphasise that the clean audit was achieved with Zero Irregular Expenditure, Zero Wasteful and Fruitless Expenditure and Zero Unauthorized Expenditure which is the clearest demonstration that the Office of the Premier, as the transversal co-ordinating department, leads by example in how taxpayers’ funds are utilised in the process of delivering services to the people of KwaZulu-Natal.”
She congratulated the Director General Dr Mkhize on this achievement and for the leadership she provided and all officials whose attention to detail and commitment to professionalism is demonstrable in this wonderful audit result. “This is what we expect to see continuously from the Office of the Premier and indeed all departments and entities in our province”.
Meanwhile Ms Dube-Ncube has also noted the proclamation by President Cyril Ramaphosa authorising the Special Investigating Unit to investigate the Office of the Premier.
“We have committed ourselves to leading a transparent, ethical and accountable provincial government, and in that regard, we welcome any probe into any activity covering any period relating to the KwaZulu-Natal Office of the Premier. The attainment of a clean audit for the 2022/23 financial year is testament to our commitment to governance that is beyond reproach. The SIU is a creature of our Constitution that the founders of our democracy put in place as one of the means to safeguard the interests of citizens in the use of taxpayers’ funds” added Ms Dube-Ncube.
According to the proclamation, the Special Investigating Unit will probe allegations of unlawful and improper conduct on certain projects and programmes that took place between 1 April 2007 and 29 July 2023.
Meanwhile Ms Dube-Ncube has also noted the proclamation by President Cyril Ramaphosa authorising the Special Investigating Unit to investigate the Office of the Premier.
“We have committed ourselves to leading a transparent, ethical and accountable provincial government, and in that regard, we welcome any probe into any activity covering any period relating to the KwaZulu-Natal Office of the Premier. The attainment of a clean audit for the 2022/23 financial year is testament to our commitment to governance that is beyond reproach. The SIU is a creature of our Constitution that the founders of our democracy put in place as one of the means to safeguard the interests of citizens in the use of taxpayers’ funds,” she said.