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Annual Report for the 2021/22 Financial Year
Vote 2: Western Cape Provincial Parliament
Part C: Governance

14. FRAUD AND CORRUPTION

The WCPP’s Fraud Preven on Policy maintains a stance of not tolera ng corrupt or fraudulent
ac vi es, whether internal or external, and commits to pursuing and prosecu ng any par es
vigorously, by all legal means available, who engage or a empt to engage in such prac ces. The
Fraud Preven on Policy was distributed to all employees and was made available on the document
management system.

The WCPP’s Whistle-blowing Policy was distributed to all employees. This policy provides guidelines
to employees and workers on how to raise concerns with the appropriate line management, specific
designated persons in the WCPP or external ins tu ons where they have reasonable grounds for
believing that offences or improprie es have been or are being perpetrated in the WCPP.

The WCPP also approved a Conflict of Interest Policy for the period under review, which was
distributed and communicated to staff. The policy outlines the responsibili es and processes for
iden fying, disclosing and managing any conflict of interest at the WCPP.

The Ethics Management Strategy and Plan were implemented and covered both the proac ve and
reac ve ac vi es. These ac vi es included fraud repor ng, fraud governance (iden fica on of fraud
risk and management of iden fied exis ng fraud risk, awareness programme in respect of ethics
management, fraud control and corrup on preven on), Code of Conduct declara on, declara on of
business interests, declara on of gi s and dona ons, declara on of authorised private work
conducted by employees, ve ng employees, screening of prospec ve employees and service
providers. Feedback was then provided to the GOVCOM, the ExCo and the Audit Commi ee in
respect of progress against the plan.

The fraud health check survey was completed by the WCPP employees in the third quarter of the
2021/22 financial year. As in the previous financial year, this assisted in gaining a high-level
understanding of the extent of employee awareness of fraud control. The results were used to
inform the Ethics Management Strategy and Plan and Fraud Preven on Strategy and
Implementa on Plan for the 2022/23 financial year.

15. MINIMISING CONFLICT OF INTEREST

No conflict of interest was iden fied in the period under review.

16. CODE OF CONDUCT

Mee ngs
During the period under review the Conduct Commi ee met four mes.

Registrar of Members’ Interest
On 26 November 2020 the House took the following resolu on, on a mo on of the Deputy Chief
Whip of the Majority Party, Honourable DG Mitchell: That the appointment of Advocate P Burgers as

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