The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs received the first special report from the Office of the Auditor-General on its real-time audit of flood relief funds in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) for the period up to 31 August 2022. According to Ms Vanuja Maharaj, the Head of Regulatory Audit at the Auditor-General and who presented the report, real-time audit information on the Eastern Cape is lacking because of slow spending in the province. The committee heard that the .