GDID ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25

Unauthorised expenditure The Department did not incur any unauthorised expenditure for the year ended 31 March 2025 Fruitless and wasteful Expenditure The above table represents the current year’s movement of fruitless and wasteful expenditure that was reported by the Department to the Accounting Officer of R9,5 million during the year 2024/25 in accordance with National Treasury instruction no. 4 of 2022/23 and Treasury Regulation 9.1.2. This amount consists of interest paid due to a court order settlement paid for various projects. Subsequently, the Department has issued a circular again to all officials to refrain from incurring fruitless and wasteful expenditure. The Department has concluded the investigation and referred them to the Accounting Officer for possible write-off. Irregular expenditure The current year movement, which totals R103 million, is shown in the above table. Included in the current year movement is payment made on expired lease contracts, of which the expenditure incurred was in contravention of the Supply Chain Management prescripts. The Department has since rectified the process through the issue of a notice for termination to the landlord and a tender advert for office accommodation. During the year the Department updated the SCM policy and aligned it to the new prescripts issued by National Treasury. The Department has concluded the investigation process of irregular expenditure and referred the outcome to the Provincial Treasury for condonement. Public-Private Partnerships • The Exco has given the Department a mandate to refurbish all head office accommodation for the province to comply with regulations and standards. The Department has undertaken this process and explored different funding options. The Public-Private Partnership is the preferred funding option that the Department will implement to provide office accommodation through the consolidation of the head office and administrative functions of all GPG Departments within the Johannesburg Central Business District.

• The feasibility report and Treasury Approval IIA relating to design and bid documents have been approved. The procurement process for Transaction Advisor is being managed by National Treasury through their entity (GTAC). The bid evaluation and bid adjudication stages have already been completed; the final award of the contract is underway. Discontinued key activities / activities to be discontinued Over the past two years the Department initiated the two programmes within EPWP aimed at reducing the number of unemployed persons. Below are the two programmes. Health Maintenance Programme: The Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development (DID), jointly with the Gauteng Department of Health (DoH), is implementing the EPWP Health Maintenance Programme across three Metropolitan and two District Municipalities within Gauteng Province. This is conceived to benefit 1 230 participants across the five corridors in the province to do garden maintenance and clean administration blocks for a period of 12 months. The programme will have special emphasis on the targeted groups of women, youth and people with disabilities. This programme aims to draw significant numbers of unemployed persons into productive work. To this effect, the Department has allocated a budget of R52 million for the year 2024/25. Vacant Land and Facilities Maintenance The programme will be manually and physically clearing of provincial owned vacant sites and properties whose grounds and offices will be maintained through utilising the poorest of the poor as labour. The programme will be implemented as part of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) and be spearheaded by the Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development as a contribution towards poverty eradication and job creation. The objective of this programme is to provide a cost-effective, labour-intensive method of routine site maintenance of the provincial vacant sites or other duties as determined from time to time by the Head of Department: Infrastructure Development or his/her duly appointed designee in a sustainable manner. The targeted group for this programme are women, youth and people with

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