DA says Gauteng bus subsidies incurred over R12-million in irregular expenditure [SOUND]

# The DA in Gauteng says the provincial Department of Roads and Logistics has not been implementing the bus subsidy system correctly for 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. The party’s, Evert Du Plessis, says the subsidies were not properly processed, and the companies contracted to the department to provide transport for residents were paid every month without due process being followed. He says the result of not following the prescribed formula means that the department paid over ten-million-rand to bus companies which constitute irregular expenditure: