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Durban – The police and defence departments have admitted that their monitoring of contracts and service agreements is not effective, economical or efficient. An auditor-general\u2019s report revealed they had spent billions hiring consultants for work their officials should have done. <\/p>\n
The Department of Defence spent R10.4 billion on consultants between 2008 and 2011. The police department spent just over R4bn in that period. <\/p>\n
The auditor-general\u2019s report, released last month, also revealed the defence department had paid R860 million over three years to aircraft specialists from aviation company Aero Manpower Group – a business unit of Denel Aviation. The open-ended contract, which is set to be terminated in April, following the report, dates from 1986. <\/p>\n
It also came to light that the police\u2019s intended spending of R80m on fixing 200 armoured Nyalas in preparation for the 2010 soccer World Cup had ended up costing more than double, R177m, with 44 Nyalas delivered late – long after the tournament had ended. <\/p>\n
Appearing before Parliament\u2019s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Tuesday, the two departments came under fire from MPs, who forced them to admit that their monitoring systems were weak and that consultants were at times used unnecessarily. <\/p>\n
An agitated ANC MP, Roy Ainslie, questioned Secretary of Defence Sam Gulube on why his department had never revisited the 27-year \u201cevergreen contract\u201d with Denel, 18 years into democracy, to ensure that skills of the aircraft maintenance technicians were transferred to the department and made permanent. <\/p>\n
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INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS<\/span><\/p>\n Gulube responded that the department was in the process of terminating the contract. <\/p>\n According to the auditor-general\u2019s report, the department lacked internal capacity and skills. <\/p>\n Gulube told Scopa the technicians had such specialised skills that it would be too expensive for the department to retain them as they were \u201chighly sought after\u201d by commercial airlines all over the world. <\/p>\n But Gulube\u2019s response angered Ainslie, who lambasted the department for failing to do a cost benefit analysis as required by law to check whether outsourcing services was cost effective. <\/p>\n \u201cHow do you know how much the cost is going to be? The AG says in each report that you haven\u2019t done cost benefit analysis in terms of supply management, service delivery\u2026 throughout this report you haven\u2019t done this exercise. So you can\u2019t sit there and tell us that it\u2019s too expensive\u2026 you don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n The department also came under fire for R134m paid to consultants without supporting documentation. The person responsible for monitoring the contract had been suspended and the vacant post had not been filled. <\/p>\n Political Bureau<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Independent Newspapers Durban – The police and defence departments have admitted that their monitoring of contracts and service agreements is not effective, economical or efficient. An auditor-general\u2019s report revealed they had spent billions hiring consultants for work their officials should have done. The Department of Defence spent R10.4 billion on consultants between 2008 and 2011. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-18496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}