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Mpumalanga fraud under scrutiny
19/07/2006 18:55 - (SA)
Zinkie Sithole
Nelspruit - The Mpumalanga government will hand in a report about its corruption-busting and service-delivery efforts to a team from the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) on Thursday.
The APRM is a self-monitoring instrument introduced and agreed to by member states of the African Union to improve governance in Africa.
Provincial government spokesperson Ndiafhi Tshirado said: "Mpumalanga's (report) will be an important addition to completing the whole picture of how South Africa has or will continue to improve its governance."
The Mpumalanga report was compiled in a 10-month period, starting in September 2005.
Levels of accountability
It provides detailed information on political infighting, corporate governance and socio-economic development, and the levels of accountability by officials.
The presentation of the report, which is based on 21 questions, will take place at a closed meeting between Premier Thabang Makwetla and the APRM team in Nelspruit.
The APRM team will answer question at KaBokweni community hall outside White River.
Tshirado said: "This will give the team an opportunity to understand the public's depth of knowledge about governance."
Make recommendations to the state
He said that once the APRM team had assessed and validated the report, they would make recommendations to the state.
Questions 16 and 17 of the questionnaire ask about the state of corruption in each country and the country's intervention measures.
While Tshirado wouldn't give details about the cases mentioned in the report, recent scandals in Mpumalanga have included former director-general advocate Stanley Soko being asked by the select committee on public accounts (Scopa) to repay more than R3.6m.
This is an amount that was irregularly paid to a marketing and public relations company.
The company was contracted to promote and clean up the province's image after numerous scandals.
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