{"id":34022,"date":"2013-03-20T11:29:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T09:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=34022"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T09:57:46","slug":"auditor-general-to-probe-r140m-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/34022\/auditor-general-to-probe-r140m-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditor general to probe R140m website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"DA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1696-DA-Democratic-Alliance\">DA<\/a> says it has received confirmation from the auditor-general that the\u00a0R140 million Free State provincial government website\u00a0will be investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The DA said it requested an investigation from the AG after it emerged that the website price was significantly inflated, with indications that there may have been serious irregularities in the awarding of the tender.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the DA\u2019s request, the AG\u00a0reportedly\u00a0said that the website will be included in an investigation of a sample of contracts awarded by Free State Premier <a title=\"Ace Magashule\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7609-Ace-Magashule\">Ace Magashule<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DA welcomes this investigation and trusts that the AG will get to the bottom of this matter,&#8221; the opposition party said.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are due to be reported through the regular audit process and will be included in the official AG\u2019s report on the Premier\u2019s financial statements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Massive amounts of public money cannot be used to enrich Premier Magashule\u2019s allies in business while service delivery projects in the Free State continue to suffer,&#8221; the DA said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the\u00a0Free State Govt website<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Free State Govt website saga deepens\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/33353\/free-state-govt-website-saga-deepens\/\"><strong>Free State Govt website saga deepens<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Govt defends \u201cR40 million\u201d websites\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/32888\/govt-defends-r40-million-websites\/\"><strong>Govt defends \u201cR40 million\u201d websites<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"R140 million for government website\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/32742\/r140-million-for-government-website\/\"><strong>R140 million for government website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Controversial govt website to be probed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/33027\/controversial-govt-website-to-be-probed\/\"><strong>Controversial govt website to be probed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DA says it has received confirmation from the auditor-general that the R140 million Free State provincial government website will be investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5332,5427,1329,26],"class_list":["post-34022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-ace-magashule","tag-auditor-general","tag-da","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34022"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34025,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022\/revisions\/34025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}