Parly committees want answers after Joburg writes off R13.2bn in unlawful expenditure

Polity Audio Articles · Jun 10, 2026 · 4m

Parly committees want answers after Joburg writes off R13.2bn in unlawful expenditure Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) and the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs have demanded an exhaustive breakdown of the more than R13.2-billion in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless, and wasteful expenditure that the City of Johannesburg wrote off or regularised during the 2024/25 financial year. During a joint parliamentary briefing regarding the metro's recent audit outcomes, the committees demanded explicit details on the R13.278-billion…