The Democratic Alliance has called on the Minister of Labour Mildred Oliphant to take urgent step and action to ensure the financial stability of the Compensation Fund.
This is after the Auditor General revealed
that the entity racked up almost R139 million in irregular expenditure and over
R15 million in fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
DA Deputy MP of Labour Michael Bagraim said
it appears that it is completely incompetent, the office is falling apart and
despite the fact that our government has spent millions of Rands on computer
systems, nothing seems to be working.
Bagraim said we as a society are not
protected the most vulnerable, those that are now disabled, injured on duty and
have not been able to access any funding or help.
“Doctors are refusing to see patients
because the fund does not pay them. The
Auditor General tells us that the fund itself is sitting with hundreds of
millions of Rands that they are unable to spend because they
cannot access the money” Bagraim added.
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