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811 TUESDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2008
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QUESTIONS
For written reply:
Financial misconduct in PSC
325. Mr K J MINNIE (DA) asked the
Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development:
(1) Whether her department has implemented
any measures to deal with
the problems of financial misconduct
identified by the Public Service
(2)
Commission (PSC) in the 2005-06
financial year (details furnished); if
not, why not; if so, (a) what measures
and (b) what are the reasons for the
high number of cases reported in the
PSC report for the 2006-07 financial
year;
what were the reasons in each case
for withdrawing the charges in respect
of 43 cases out of the 179 that
were reported;
(3) (a) how many (i) of the other 136
cases where charges were not withdrawn
have been finalised and (ii)
departmental officials have been (aa)
charged with and (bb) found guilty of
financial misconduct and (b) what
action was taken against those who
had been found guilty? NW858E
The MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND CON-
STITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
(1) (a) Yes, my department has implemented
measures to deal with
problems of financial misconduct
as identified by the Public Service
Commission. Checking officials
have been sent on training programmes
to ensure compliance
with financial prescripts. In addition,
a retention programme has
also been implemented to retain
experienced officials.
(2) I would like to inform the member that
there were actually 197 cases reported
to the PSC for the 2006-07 financial
year of which 49 were withdrawn.
These cases were thoroughly investigated
by my department and the reasons
for their withdrawal include a lack
of evidence or where cases were reported
to the police, the investigations
were finalised or closed without success.
(3) (a) (i) There were 148 cases where
charges were not withdrawn.
All of these cases have been
finalised.
(ii) (aa) There were 148 officials
who were charged with
financial misconduct.
(bb) There were 94 officials
who were found guilty of
financial misconduct.
(b) These officials either were dismissed,
demoted, issued with final
written warnings and/or suspended
without pay.
Role of person in arms deal
608. Mr E W TRENT (DA) asked the
Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development:
(1) Whether, with reference to the criminal
investigations that were undertaken
into the Strategic Defence
Procurement Packages or arms deal,
any further investigations will be
made into the role of a certain
person* (name furnished); if not,
what is the position in this regard; if
so, what are the relevant details;
(2) whether, with reference to paragraph
C 3 of the 15th Report of the
Committee on Public Accounts on
the Joint Investigation Report into
the Strategic Defence Procurement