ANC rejects MKP’s audit request on budget costs

THE ANC has dismissed the uMk-honto weSizwe Party's (MKP) request for a special forensic audit into the aborted 2025 national budget speech, calling it “frivolous” and motivated by “political posturing”.

- MASHUDU SADIKE

Imraan Subrathie, the ANC Study Group on Standing Committee on Auditor-General Whip and MP, said the request did not warrant a special audit, as the information requested could be reported by the National Treasury and respective organs of state through the Auditor-General South Africa's (AGSA) annual auditing of public institutions.

The ANC was responding to a let-ter that MKP Chief Whip Mzwanele Manyi had written to the Auditor-Gen-eral of South Africa (AGSA), Tsakani Maluleke, calling for a full forensic audit into the money spent on the aborted February 2025 Budget Speech, seeking to find out whether it amounted to fruitless and wasteful expenditure.