Director Veli Nwandule

Commissioner Bolhuis did not mistrust the process of invoice co-signing at the time but later gave evidence that irregularities in invoices were identified by Director Veli Nwandule of Management Admin Support, who highlighted the need to follow a specific financial procedure that stopped invoices being brought back for co-signing by Bolhuis.

“I did not pick up anything immediately and I did not have any mistrust at that time. However, and I do give evidence about this later, when the director of MAS, Management Admin Support, Director Veli Nwandule, he indicated that there could be some irregularity within invoices. At that stage, the finance section has indicated both to me as the caretaker and to Director Malatji that they will have to follow a certain financial procedure, which then became the procedure they needed to follow, not bringing invoices back to me for co-signing. So that then stopped and that financial procedure that was implemented by the financial section was then followed. And then subsequently, the director of MAS, Nwandule, picked up their regularity because they will be in a better position to pick up on this because they have the contracts, the SLAs, the monthly expenditure, and if there is any further expenditure than what would have been the baseline from previous months or allocated to a certain service provider, they would pick it up. And subsequently, they did pick up.”