Corruption within the government will be tackled with vigour and determination, President Jacob Zuma promised on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Addressing the National Council of Provinces in Parliament, the president said he agreed with the Auditor-General that there should be consequences for bad management.<\/p>\n
He said ministers running the departments had been spoken to in this regard. \u201cThey must ensure that officials under their management fulfill all prescripts when utilising public funds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zuma said the problem was “sometimes not the stealing of money, but the failure by government officials to follow procedures”.<\/p>\n
He said uprooting corruption was a core objective of the government’s Back to Basics programme, citing the example of 222 officials who had been dismissed for fraud and corruption from October 2014 to June 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing forward, anti-corruption measures will include the monitoring of the implementation of the recommendations of all forensic investigations into municipalities,” Zuma said.<\/p>\n
A campaign with organised business would be launched to counter private sector involvement in corruption in municipalities, Zuma said.<\/p>\n
He believed the proposed changes to the number of municipalities in the country would lead to better governance and stronger functioning municipalities.<\/p>\n
There were also word of praise for the Independent Electoral Commission, and Zuma said he did not foresee any hassles in organising the upcoming 2016 local government elections.<\/p>\n
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