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Inside Gauteng’s welfare corruption investigation

A forensic audit caused dozens of welfare organisations to be defunded. These were the findings against them

Dozens of organisations were unfairly punished after a 2023 forensic audit found major problems with how the department appoints, funds and monitors non-profit organisations. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

The findings of a 2023 forensic audit resulted in dozens of organisations being defunded by the Gauteng Department of Social Development.
This is despite the audit’s main findings being related to problems within the department, not the organisations.
We previously reported how these organisations went months without funding and had to take the department to court to clear their names.
This article takes a closer look at the findings of the report.

In 2023, the Gauteng Department of Social Development commissioned a forensic investigation into 46 social welfare organisations, in an attempt to…

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