The Department incurred irregular expenditure amounting to R1.5 million, where R1.2 million and R35 000 was for goods and services that were procured without following procurement procedures; and R325 000 was for officials from various African countries who attended, without Ministerial approval, the 7th SKA Working Group meeting in Botswana that was arranged by the Department. The Department also incurred fruitless and wasteful expenditure amounting to R60 000 due to two external officials not arriving for the 7th SKA Working Group meeting. These instances are reported as being under investigation.