Gauteng to use real-time digital audits to manage RDP housing fraud

By Akani Nkuna

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says the provincial government is moving to tighten controls over RDP housing allocations through digital systems aimed at detecting fraud, illegal occupation, and the resale or rental of state-subsidised homes.

Lesufi told the Gauteng Legislature in Johannesburg on Tuesday that the Department of Human Settlements was working to introduce an electronic system that would allow officials to audit housing allocations more regularly and in real time.

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“The department is working towards an electronic system that will allow you to have an instant audit rather than run an audit quarterly, yearly, or after three years, to try to achieve the intended goals,” he said.

“The reality is that if we can register all our beneficiaries through an e-registration process, if there is a change of ownership, that information can be immediately available and makes auditing