South Africa's latest minister of communications, Nomvula Mokonyane, South Africa's 10th communications minister in 10 years, is being implicated in serious irregularities by Treasury officials and the Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu while she was minister of water and sanitation, like going on a tender deviation spree and wasting billions of rands in project management and professional fees.
The Sunday Times reports that Nomvula Mokonyane splurged billions on excessive project management and professional fees‚ leaving the department she previously oversaw in dire financial problems.
The department was also riddled with leadership instability and a skills crisis and with the tender irregularities and excessive construction costs that increased its fruitless and wasteful expenditure. It also outsourced procurement to a private company.
