Commenting on potential fraud and limiting audit efforts around Covid-19 funds, auditor-general Kimi Makwetu says: "It is inconsiderable that in month four you would find it difficult to produce documents to prove transactions. What would be the reason? How could that document have disappeared?" Makwetu was in conversation with Aldrin Sampear on Thursday. 

On request of president Cyri Ramaphosa, the auditor-general's office undertook an audit of 16 of the key Covid-19 initiatives introduced by government, and the management of R147.4 billion of the funds made available for these initiatives. The report has found significant issues with government’s Covid-19 relief fund for workers, which resulted in overpayments, underpayments, and the invalid rejection of beneficiaries, fraud and double-dipping.