The Auditor-General painted a bleak picture of the government's response to the April 2022 floods. The homes were found to be defective in its build quality.
The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs received the first special report from the Office of the Auditor-General on its real-time audit of flood relief funds in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) for the period up to 31 August 2022. According to Ms Vanuja Maharaj, the Head of Regulatory Audit at the Auditor-General and who presented the report, real-time audit information on the Eastern Cape is lacking because of slow spending in the province. The committee heard that the .
The Auditor-General's office has given a scathing account of financial deterioration and lack of management in the eThekwini Municipality, which had an increase of 94% in irregular expenditure.