Government Printing Works asks for extension to submit annual report

Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has asked Parliament to grant an extension to the Government Printing Works (GPW) to submit its 2021/22 annual report in September after the entity suffered yet another crash on its data server.

Motsoaledi made the request in a letter addressed to National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and National Council of Provinces chairperson Amos Masondo. In his letter, Motsoaledi said the head of GWP was required to submit financial statements within two months after the end of the financial year to the Auditor-General for auditing and the National Treasury to prepare consolidated financial statements.

The audit report was to be submitted within five months of the end of a financial year to Parliament with the institution’s annual report and financial statements.

“If an accounting officer is unable to comply with any of the responsibilities determined for accounting officers in this Part, the accounting officer must promptly report the inability, together with reasons, to the relevant executive authority and Treasury. Motsoaledi said GPW experienced a power surge which led to a hardware failure in February 2021.

“Failure of a hardware called EVA affected a number of systems because it hosts multiple servers, including those of the tender bulletins, e-Gazettes, financial management system (Dynamics AX system), emails and other technical systems.

“GPW subsequently lost critical data dating back to November 2019 which was contained in the servers, when this hardware failure occurred The minister said GPW had previously committed to submitting two sets of annual financial statements by May 31. GPW submitted the first set of annual financial statements for 2020/21 for auditing on May 31.

Source: IOL

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