He says this will assist to safeguard business and the economy and ensure improved service delivery to local communities. The province is one of many battling to deal with the escalating issues of fraud and corruption . Most of the municipalities and government entities were highlighted by Auditor General (AG), Kimi Makwetu, who painted a bleak picture - adding they lack the capacity to deal with and investigate cases of fraud and corruption which runs into millions of rands lost.

Mokgoro held an Anti-Corruption and Ethics Road Show, hosted in Madibeng Local Municipality, which is one of the four municipalities that invested millions of taxpayers’ money with the now-defunct VBS Mutual Bank. The campaign was to commemorate Fraud Awareness Week, aimed at highlighting the effects of fraud and corruption. Mokgoro said: “Fraud and corruption pose a serious threat to human and economic development as it creates instability in public institutions and goes a long way in undermining the rule of law, democratic values and society at large.

"The effects of rampant fraudulent behaviour and corruption by those that have been given the mandate and task of overlooking public institutions lead to poor service delivery, inefficient use of allocated resources and negatively affects the standard of living of the people who are meant to receive quality basic and life-improving services.”  

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