# Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, says the reform agenda underway in the department is aimed at improving accountability, protecting public money, and addressing long-standing institutional failures. He has expressed concern about the Property Management Trading Entity, which is responsible for managing one of South Africa’s largest public property portfolios, saying it is financially unstable and operationally weak. The entity’s overdraft has doubled to nearly four-billion-rand, and has not achieved a clean audit since 2014. Macpherson says the department cannot be rebuilt without confronting internal dysfunction.
Minister Macpherson says he cannot build a capable department on top of broken systems