Civil servants stole more than R300 million of public money in the past financial year, the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n
This was according to a report by the Public Service Commission (PSC) tabled in Parliament this week.<\/p>\n
The PSC probed financial misconduct in 39 national departments and nine provincial governments.<\/p>\n
A total of 1135 cases of financial misconduct was committed by civil servants during the 2009\/2010 financial year.<\/p>\n
Of these 998 were found guilty of taking R346 million from state coffers, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n
This figure was the highest recorded in five years — representing a staggering 346 percent growth compared with R100 million in 2008\/2009.<\/p>\n
The PSC slammed the government for not robustly pursuing criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n
“Failure to institute criminal action… may encourage acts of financial misconduct to continue to be on the rise,” said the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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