COVID-19: eThek Mayor orders audit process on City's expenditures
eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda wants the audit process on all the money the city has spent on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic expedited.
He says they want to make sure every cent is accounted for.
The procurement of PPE and other supplies required for the country's management of the pandemic has been marred by corruption at all levels of government.
And authorities are under pressure to act and do so decisively.
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eThekwini says it's spent nearly R600 million in its response to the crisis.
It says R66 million of this amount was used to help 1 000 households in KwaNyuswa with food and other essential items.
It says it also housed around 2 000 homeless people around the city during the lockdown - and launched a sanitisation programme at 22 informal settlements -including water supply.
