COVID-19 audits add to Auditor General's headaches

A few years ago, the then premises of the Office of the Auditor-General in Kgale Mews were found to be in such a state of defect, trusses broken, parts of the ceiling collapsed, cracks in the walls and floors that staff there complained about, feeling unsafe.

Analysts saw a cynical metaphor into then Auditor-General, Robby Sebopeng’s suspicions of poor workmanship and his appeal for the crucial institution to be moved to safer premises. After all, the same way rain waters threatened to leak onto sensitive audit documents at Kgale Mews due to incompetence, was mirrored in the way revenues were leaking from public coffers due to mismanagement.