The emergency procurement processes during the national state of disaster on the energy crisis “will not be abused”, co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday.
“That’s why the auditor-general will do real-time auditing — but also, we said that the accounting officers who will use the emergency procurement according to these regulations will have to appear in parliament every month so that we don’t have anyone abusing the regulations,” said Dlamini-Zuma.
The minister was briefing the media in Pretoria on the regulations after the gazetting of the national state of disaster by President Cyril Ramaphosa last month.
Dlamini-Zuma, who was criticised for her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic regulations, said the latest regulations aim to minimise the impact of load-shedding on the economy, health, agriculture, security, education, water services and lifesaving infrastructure, among others.
Every month the accounting officer goes to parliament to explain what they have procured and for what. That is how we are trying to stop what happened earlier. Going to parliament every month is going to be helpful because people will know that they will have to account to the nation.”
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