The Department of Defence has been rapped over the knuckles by the auditor-general for paying soldiers more than R800-million in salary hikes, incentive bonuses and housing allowances without going through the proper channels.
According to the Defence Department’s overdue annual report, which was tabled in parliament today, the department received another qualified audit mainly as a result of problems it had experienced in maintaining a proper register of all its assets.
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Here are Defence Secretary Mpumi Mpofu’s opening remarks to a news conference in Cape Town: