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Bad audit opinion for Gauteng Department of Social Development

Irregular expenditure and insufficient controls are a persistent problem

The Gauteng Department of Social Development has received a qualified audit opinion for 2025/26. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

The Auditor-General (AG) has given the Gauteng Department of Social Development a qualified audit opinion for 2025/26, backsliding from the previous two years.
The department gave no supporting evidence for its reported performance, so the AG could not verify how many targets it met for the two programmes it audited.
The AG could not get enough evidence that the department had measures to ensure the R1.9-billion it paid to non-profit organisations was used as intended.

The Gauteng Department of Social Development (GDSD), which delivers social welfare services and manages social protection programmes in the province, has seen its audit outcome backslide. The Auditor-General…

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