COMMENT | Having used excerpts from the document in my line of work over the years, I termed it a catalogue of shame, but on Friday, someone called it the annual joke book which comes in editions.

We were both referring to the Auditor-General's Report and reading news reports on the latest quarterly findings, not much has changed - the misfeasors, as usual, were all civil servants. If at all others were involved, most were abetters.

In 2021, the World Bank estimated that 20 to 30 percent of the country's budget for public contracts was wasted. And the AG’s report gave an idea of how and why these things happen.

But this is not a new phenomenon...