SANRAL’s massive irregular spending surge

GAUTENG – The SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) has told its debt investors that its irregular expenditure ballooned 1,741% during the year ending March. The agency said that despite a 2020 board resolution to curb expenses, coupled with previous auditor-general recommendations and ministerial targets to reduce irregular spending by 75%, no reductions were recorded in the year, and it incurred irregular expenditure of R6.7 billion.