{"id":177133,"date":"2024-07-23T20:35:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-guvamatanga-criticizes-auditor-general-over-report-on-undelivered-goods\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T20:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:35:34","slug":"zimbabwe-guvamatanga-criticizes-auditor-general-over-report-on-undelivered-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-guvamatanga-criticizes-auditor-general-over-report-on-undelivered-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Guvamatanga Criticizes Auditor General Over Report On Undelivered Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Permanent Secretary for Finance, George Guvamatanga, says the Auditor General&#8217;s office misdirected itself in its 2023 report, which revealed the government was paying millions for undelivered goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;The auditor should have told the public that the government knew about this before and was acting,&#8221; Guvamatanga said, adding that there should be &#8220;no need for this excitement about the undelivered cars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The 2023 report, recently tabled before Parliament by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.auditorgeneral.gov.zw\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Auditor General<\/a> Rhea Kujinga, reviewed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407230446.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permanent Secretary for Finance, George Guvamatanga, says the Auditor General&#8217;s office misdirected itself in its 2023 report, which revealed the government was paying millions for undelivered goods. &#8220;The auditor should have told the public that the government knew about this before and was acting,&#8221; Guvamatanga said, adding that there should be &#8220;no need for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8422,24207,6768,8240,43248,257,5144,254,49123,4686,421],"class_list":["post-177133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auditor","tag-criticizes","tag-general","tag-goods","tag-guvamatanga","tag-news","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-undelivered","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}