GDID ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25

4. REPORT OF THE ACCOUNTING OFFICER

PART

The province’s Growing Gauteng Together action plan and the 2030 National Development Plan’s objectives and goals to enhance community quality of life, which are based on the public infrastructure build programme as a major driver of economic growth and development, are in line with all of this work. The pursuance of maximum impact of Departmental programmes has seen the Department accordingly aligning its operational and strategic plans to the national and provincial government policies on equity. This includes procurement spent on previously disadvantaged groups such as women, youth, and people with disabilities. The procurement spent indicates that 54.24% of the procurement was allocated to women-owned enterprises against the target of 40%, with 30.38% to youth, and 5% went to people with disabilities-owned enterprises also benefiting in the procurement programme. The Department has established a solid foundation for achieving a clean audit in the future by implementing internal systems and controls that allow complete accountability for the use of public resources and funds entrusted to us. For the past five years, the Department obtained an unqualified audit outcome on the audit of financial and non-financial reporting, as determined by the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA). This achievement is attributed to the cooperation that the Department has shown towards AGSA and the commitment of the Department’s branches to providing evidence for achievements and non-achievements of targets. Internal control facilitates weekly audit steering committee sessions that involve all branches and consider all audit queries to ensure the Department serves its purpose and complies with AGSA regulations. The Department continues to achieve 95% payment of invoices to professional service providers within the 30 day period. The Department has also accelerated its recruitment of competent human resources by prioritising and filling critical positions during the 2024/25 fiscal year as part of its ongoing efforts to increase state capacity. To this end, a total of 15 vacant positions were filled. This was

Mr Rufus Mmutlana

Accounting Officer: Department of Infrastructure Development

Overview of the operations of the Department:

2 The 2024/25 fiscal year marked the last financial year within the sixth administration of the Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG). As a result, there was an urgent sense of purpose in ensuring that the performance targets that had been established at the beginning of the term were achieved. The annual report is a reflection on the financial and non-financial performance of the Department against the targets and objectives that have been set out in the 2024/25 Annual Performance Plan. Therefore, it is the Department’s responsibility to assess the successes, milestones, and challenges that have occurred in executing the Departmental mandate. This is a mechanism for reemphasising the Department’s position in promoting and instilling a culture of transparency, accountability and good governance in support of the directive from the Gauteng Provincial Government.

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DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT