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The Minister of Finance and Economic Development Dr Thapelo Matsheka has promised to submit to Parliament the financial audit of the controversial Covid-19 national relief fund.
Dr Matsheka who has been going through baptism of fire from the opposition colleagues after delivering a budget speech last week over alleged misappropriation of funds says the audit is coming. During the budget speech, Matsheka announced that the government’s foreign reserves lost P12 billion in year with his pronouncement drawing mixed emotions with some faulting loss to corruption. But Matsheka said such funds have been not misappropriated, indicating that they have been used to finance imports and other government obligations at period characterized by Covid-19.