The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
(a) Through the Expanded Public Works Programme Reporting System (EPWP-RS), the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) based on the verifications done with the Department of Public Service and Administration PERSAL system has identified suspicious transactions on the EPWP allocated budgets that may have been lost to corruption, undeserving beneficiaries and theft. In this regard:
(b) Although interventions have been made by the DPWI to address the findings related to corruption, payments to underserving beneficiaries and theft in the EPWP, the DPWI does not have records of monies recovered and paid back to the State. However, the DPWI will develop Standard Operating Procedures for outlining practical processes which will be followed to stop payments for cases detected and to recover monies paid to beneficiaries through corruption, payment to underserving beneficiaries and theft in the future.