ANC rejects MK Party's Budget costs audit request

'WASTEFUL EXPENDITURE'

- MASHUDU SADIKE

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”.

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 letter MKP Chief Whip Mzwanele Manyi had written to the AG, Tsakani Maluleke, calling for a full forensic audit into the aborted February 2025 Budget Speech, seeking to find whether it amounted to fruitless and wasteful expenditure.