By Des Erasmus
There was a rare kind of honesty in provincial presentations to the portfolio committee on public service and administration about lifestyle audits last week.
Not moral candour, God forbid. Hell would be spitting ice cubes should anything to do with government reach that level of self-awareness.
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No, it was bureaucratic candour, the kind that slips out when a system is forced to explain itself and ends up revealing that it has built something far weaker than advertised.
The most honest province, surprisingly, was Gauteng, something I would not usually write without a whisky within reaching distance.
It said employees who were asked to submit years of bank, credit, loan and trust account records “will always be reluctant” to hand over information that may incriminate them.
Well, yes. A lifestyle audit that depends on the
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