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Maverick Citizen spotted what we believed to be a rudimentary mathematical error, but one with multimillion-rand implications.
We noticed that each month the Treasury was treating the cumulative expenditure figure of what it was paying the six wannabe cleaning companies to “fumigate” Gauteng’s public buildings as new expenditure and then adding it to the next month’s totals (see letter below). As a result, what was actually an expenditure of R117-million by the end of January 2021 (itself an amount that ought to bring the SIU running in) was reported as expenditure of R377-million.
These numbers were ratified by the department and fed through to the National Treasury, which claims to be the overseers of public expenditure.