Prasa dismisses five officials and suspends five others for financial misconduct
By Mayibongwe Maqhina
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Cape Town – The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa recently dismissed eight officials on various charges of financial misconduct.
There were five others that have been suspended last month pending investigations by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
This is according to the report Prasa tabled to the meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
The report, which was tabled by acting chief procurement officer Willie Mathebula, said four senior officials in the protection services department were dismissed for procurement related irregularities in the awarding of security contracts.
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By Moises Canales
Provincial Auditor Judy Ferguson has handed in her notice of resignation.
Ferguson was officially appointed as the provincial auditor in June 2015 after she served as the acting provincial auditor from September 2013.
She will continue her role until the end of June, at which point an acting provincial auditor will be named by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the process to find a new provincial auditor will begin.
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