Water department is tackling huge graft, Lindiwe Sisulu says

Human settlements, water & sanitation minister Lindiwe Sisulu. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

Sisulu said the department was in bad shape when she took over and had been declared bankrupt by the auditor-general. Staggering amounts had been lost to the department through irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure, she said. She told the media that officials had been charged, suspended and given written warnings regarding allegations of maladministration, fraud, corruption and misconduct related to the irregular expenditure of past financial years.The minister noted that 249 reported cases were investigated during the period from April 2012 to end-September 2019.

The department has referred 18 cases to law enforcement agencies such as the SA Police Service and the Hawks for investigation and possible prosecution. The department has also taken action to clean up the nine water boards. Sisulu said there were ongoing investigations regarding irregular expenditure, mismanagement and governance issues at the Amatola Water Board in the Eastern Cape and Lepelle Northern Water in Limpopo, the latter also being investigated by the Special Investigating Unit.

Is she attempting to “dam the flood” of corruption in the Water Department, or just “break down the dam wall” to let it all wash away

Good luck for your hard work Lindiwe Sisulu, as long as there is no Corruption involved

Powel is just an attention seeker, she doesn't even know what she's doing as a shadow minister 😂 DA sure knows how to pick them

Great work by LindiweSisuluSA in cleaning up the WSD. She's doing very well considering the negativity around her; being a victim of a relentless and well funded smear campaign. We appreciate the Minister!

Fire this woman!!! And then fire the whole anc!!!!!

Don’t believe a fucking word you ANC lot say. Nobody ever pays back the money or gets jailed. Your voters need more pain before they change their vote.

Starts with the Minister

Enabled by Lindiwe.

You get arrested for not wearing a mask but prosecuting fleecing the water and sanitation department and not delivering seems to be a huge problem for them.

This isn’t new information the SA government is rotten to the core. The core has probably fallen off.

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