TimesLIVE reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa told parliament on Tuesday that after several delays, the much-awaited lifestyle audits of members of his executive were firmly under way.

“This process is being led by the director-general (Phindile Baleni), and one of the reasons [for this] is because even members’ interests are managed by the DG in her office and we wanted this process to reside there and to be properly administered. It is in that regard that these audits are now continuing,” he said when answering MPs’ questions in the National Assembly. The aim of the audits is to collect as much information as possible, some of which already resides in Baleni’s office as she is the repository of the information on all of the members of the national executive. “This had initially been outsourced, [but] in the end we found that the coverage of what we sought was not as effective as we wanted it. It is now in the right place, under the right management, and the process continues,” Ramaphosa explained. He added that the office “has sourced competent, skilled personnel with experience in conducting lifestyle audits. A capacity-building exercise took longer than anticipated, but it is firmly under way.” The DG will decide on the appropriate way to communicate the outcomes of the audit once completed.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Andisiwe Makinana at TimesLIVE

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