Government CapacityUnder reviewMedium TermPublic Works and Infrastructure

DPWI Enterprise Renewal: Financial Systems and Consequence Management

Theme: Public administration

First raisedNov 2021Last discussedFeb 202635 meetings on the record ↓

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Assessment

Growth Impact3/5

Feasibility3/5

Responsible: Department of Public Works and Infrastructure

Feasibility Assessment

DPWI has had qualified audit opinions for many consecutive years. The Enterprise Renewal Programme is internally driven but faces resistance from embedded patronage networks. Structural reform of financial systems, SCM, and infrastructure project management requires sustained leadership with genuine consequence management — which the current political environment makes uncertain.

Description

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has received qualified or adverse audit opinions from the AGSA for multiple consecutive years, reflecting systemic failures in financial management, procurement, and consequence management. The department manages over R100 billion in infrastructure programmes — including EPWP, capital works, and government leases — yet has struggled to maintain accurate asset registers, resolve irregular expenditure findings, and take disciplinary action against officials implicated in procurement irregularities. DPWI's enterprise renewal programme — covering BAS and LOGIS financial system implementation and supply chain management overhaul — is under review by SCOPA. Active referrals to the SIU where criminality is suspected are central to the consequence management component.

Evidence & Research

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The future of South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit
ISS · Jul 2025
The paper analyses the SIU's effectiveness and potential reforms to strengthen its anti-corruption capacity, directly bearing on the policy idea's consequence management component which relies on active SIU referrals for suspected criminality in DPWI procurement irregularities.

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Parliamentary record

35 meetings

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Status History

tracked since Mar 2026

Recorded as Under review when status tracking began — held since at least Mar 2026.
Mar 2026

Data as of 2026-08-24 · latest PMG meeting 2026-08-21