If staff do wrong, there will be consequences
Msimang was speaking at the Pretoria Press Club yesterday, responding to the Auditor General's 2008/09 report which gave the department a qualified audit report - an improvement on the disclaimer their books were given the previous financial year.
Next year, Msimang is aiming for an unqualified audit with the assistance of 100 new receipt machines installed in offices around the country to replace the old cash registers.
The machines have cash slots and departmental employees will be unable to touch the money.
Msimang said the department's new "complaints and compliments" hotline was set up recently by Dlamini-Zuma after a KwaZulu-Natal man committed suicide when a Home Affairs official called him a foreigner and refused to issue him with an identity document.
Home Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said his department was the only one that connected the public directly to its minister.
Msimang said corruption was still a big problem but he was winning "some battles" with the help of a new "information technology system".
"We continue to implement the system that will make staff use their finger prints to access certain information.
"Should anything go wrong, every individual will have to face the consequences. We are winning some battles, but we are still waging a war against corruption," he said.
Msimang added that he was not happy with the number of successes his department's corruption-busting unit had racked up, but he was pleased with the fact that the unit was meeting targets set in a turn-around strategy he implemented when he took up his position in 2007.
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