a) With respect to obtaining approval to perform remunerative work it was found that 2 319 government officials had an interest in companies/Closed Corporations (CCs) that did business with national and provincial government departments; b) Although some of the departments are still determining whether employees who are directors and/or members of companies and/or CCs that did business with departments had approval to do so, departments confirmed that only 75 officials (3%) had approval to perform remunerative work outside their official employment at the departments; and c) The business conducted with government by these employee-related entities for the 2005-2007 financial years amounted to R615 million.