Through you Chairperson, hon Minister, the Auditor-General reported that in 2017-18 irregular expenditure increased five-fold in state- owned enterprises to R27 billion. Such irregular expenditure was caused largely by officials, particularly in the supply chain management arena who were deliberate and negligent in performing their duties.
There were lack of internal controls and various noncompliance issues. Now, hon Minister, I know that you have said that the boards have been changed and senior executive have been replaced, but I want to content that the rot must certainly go deeper than that. Are you satisfied that a clean sweep mechanism is being used to root out these SOEs of corrupt individuals, right from grassroots level, the bottom level and up to the top?