The Treasury cannot criticise an audit regime built on its own regulations

The Treasury’s criticism of the Auditor-General exposes a deeper contradiction at the heart of South Africa’s accountability system: the very institution complaining about compliance burdens designed many of the rules now under attack. While there are legitimate flaws in the state’s performance management framework, the AG’s latest findings suggest the bigger danger is not excessive auditing, but a growing political appetite to weaken oversight instead of fixing the systems that repeatedly fail citizens.

Original source: Daily Maverick