Answer to Question #313649 in Management for kay

Question

Chapter 10 of the Public Finance Management Amendment Act, No.29 of 1999 state the financial misconduct with the disciplinary proceedings of officials in departments and constitutional institutions, financial misconduct by treasury officials, financial misconduct by accounting authorities and officials of public entities, applicable legal regime for disciplinary proceedings, regulations on financial misconduct procedures and furthermore, part 2 of the chapter speaks of the criminal proceedings.

Critically analyse the misconduct of public officials that benefited in the PPEs and the Covid – 19 funds that were provided by government. In your discussion show how the criminal proceedings or penalties were taken to those public officials in government.

Answer 1

A scathing report into the use of South Africa's Covid-19 relief fund has revealed overpricing and potential fraud, the auditor general says. In some cases personal protective equipment (PPE) was bought for five times more than the price the national treasury had advised. The report also has flagged up 30,000 relief grants which "require further investigation". The allocated funds were meant to assist vulnerable households with food parcels, unemployment grants, support small business, farmers and to also procure personal protective equipment.

Politicians accused of corruption, particularly those within the governing ANC, were told to resign and open themselves up for investigation by law enforcement agencies who have started to investigate many illegal transactions which took place.