The auditor-general is to disclose "serious procedural flaws" in the tender process for a R30-billion arms package in a report to be tabled in parliament on Wednesday, says Pan Africanist Congress member of parliament, Patricia de Lille.

The report would provide grounds for a full investigation by the special investigative unit headed by Judge Willem Heath, De Lille said at a media briefing at parliament on Monday. 

Peet Grundlingh, the manager of the parliamentary office of the auditor-general, confirmed that the report would be tabled before the committee on Wednesday, but he would not discuss its contents.

Gavin Woods, chairperson of parliament's standing committee on public accounts, said the report would be discussed by his committee during hearings on the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) next month, after which it would decide on what action to take.

Jacob Zuma was among those implicated De Lille caused a stir in the national assembly late last year when she called for an inquiry into the awarding of the R30-billion arms deal.

She said she had been handed a report, allegedly compiled by African National Congress members, that claimed top government officials had accepted bribes to influence the awarding of the lucrative deal to one of the bidders.

Among those allegedly implicated were ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni and the deputy president, Jacob Zuma. It was alleged that Zuma had been involved during his tenure as minister for economic affairs and tourism in KwaZulu-Natal. 

De Lille called for a judicial commission of inquiry into the arms acquisition deal to determine whether certain officials and public representatives were guilty of criminal conduct in their dealings.

Zuma, Yengeni and the government denied the allegations and called on De Lille to name the report's authors. She refused.

The chief negotiator in the arms acquisition process, Jayendra Naidoo, has dismissed the allegations as baseless and not worthy of investigation.

The minister of defence, Mosiuoa Lekota, signed the deal with international weapons suppliers in Pretoria on December 3.

De Lille handed her report to the Heath unit last November. The attorney-general and the office for serious economic offences also investigated.

De Lille said on Monday that the auditor-general, Shauket Fakie, would hand his findings to the national assembly committee on public accounts on Wednesday. His report would disclose "procedural problems in the tendering of arms".

De Lille said she hoped Judge Heath would use the report to ask the president for a proclamation allowing "further investigation of corruption in the arms deal".

With acknowledgement to Phindile Ngubane and Independent Online.