Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke says the enhanced powers bestowed to the AGs office in 2019 have helped the office improve accountability.
Maluleke says these powers are a mechanism to help strengthen accountability in the public sector. This is to lessen and/or prevent corruption and material irregularities. Maluleke was speaking at a media breakfast in Pretoria on Thursday.
In 2019, the AGs office was granted powers to ensure compliance by accounting officers. Failure to do so, the AGs office may have to exercise its powers according to the Public Finance Management Act amended in 2016.
These powers come in different phases which lead up to the issuing of a certificate of debt should the accounting officer fail at each given phase.
Maluleke says these powers have helped strengthen accountability.
