National Treasury interim Covid-19 expenditure report: Ethekwini among top spenders
By Lyse Comins
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Durban - KwaZulu-Natal has spent R3.196Â billion in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, mostly through its municipalities and government departments to fund infrastructure developments, according to an interim National Treasury report released to the province.
Provincial Treasury deputy director general Santanu Moodley presented an outline of the report to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) at an online provincial legislature meeting on Tuesday. The report highlighted the Covid-19 spending of 54 municipalities, government departments and state-owned entities since the start of the pandemic. It is mandatory in terms of National Treasury instruction note 11 of 20/21 for provinces to report Covid-19 expenditure to the National Treasury monthly.