Top government officials, including chief financial officers and municipal managers, are among those who threatened the lives of the auditor-general’s staff in an attempt to block negative audit outcomes.
Makwetu told MPs that senior employees from Rand Water, a department of water and sanitation entity, intimidated his staff in August when they told them that that the AG's audit findings"are costing them their bonuses".
Makwetu said other acts of intimidation also took place at municipalities such as Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape and uMfolozi in KZN. Makwetu said while these alleged acts of criminality had been reported to the police, MPs would still be within their rights to summons all those implicated to parliament to explain themselves.
"Maybe it will be good idea to just pick up three of them in different provinces and bring them here, and then flash the cameras in their faces and get them to explain to this committee why they think that this thing that they are alleged to have done must be tolerated," said Makwetu.
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