EFF Response to the Budget Vote: Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation: Commissar Veronica Mente-Nqweniso 21 July 2014 The EFF rejects this budget proposal based on the following observations: 1. The EFF rejects the Budget vote of the Presidency: Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation. 2. From the beginning of this Parliament, both the Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe and Deputy Minister Buti Manamela have not come to address the portfolio committee on their plans and instead sent officials who could not answer some of the questions we wanted to know from the portfolio committee level. 3. The monitoring and performance of both the Minister and Deputy Minister in this department requires to be looked into because it is not satisfactory. 4. At all times, the executive should be available for Parliament oversight, even when you currently hold the Parliamentary majority. 5. The core functions of this department is to monitor performance of individual national and provincial government and municipalities. But the output is not satisfactory. Provincial and municipality governments are not carrying out their duties accordingly. Procurement processes within these two spheres are either outrageous or just a method of securing tenders to certain individuals that are not inspected on output. Roads are left unfinished subjecting the lives of our poor people to more difficulties. 6. “Umzekelo zindlela kwilali zaseCofimvaba apho abantu basathwalwa ngeleli ukusiwa ezibhedlele nasemangcwabeni.” 7. Make no mistake all these roads were at some point under construction but nobody cares as to what the money did. Taps are dried out and there is absolutely not a single drop of water because companies that constructed pipes did a careless job that could not last even for 6 months. 8. Hospitals have no adequate tools and resources, Schools have no electricity, no water, no furniture and no textbooks and yet the implementation of corrective measures does not happen. 9. Centralising procurement is not the solution because it will just increase the red tape and centralise corruption. 10. The presidential hotline management is of a poor state that no area can vouch for assistance granted to it due to this hotline. Turnaround times have to be as quick as possible in response to the outcry of our people that we need to serve every day. This can only be realised when the budget allocated is used exactly for that purpose and improve the system. 11. We are however not shocked because this government is only excellent in shifting goal posts and always postponing meeting their own set targets to a far off date, like they say all our problems will be finished by 2030. 12. The most important thing which this government should prioritise is industrial policy because it is only the development of the productive forces that will decisively deal with the crises of unemployment and poverty. 13. As things stand, there are many economic policy and industrial policy departments and instruments which are not centrally co-ordinated. They all exist in silos, when there is a National Planning Commission, which is supposed to co-ordinate all the work done by various departments. 14. The NYDA is a project gone wrong and has failed the young people of South Africa, especially the core of their constituency, young black rural and township youth. 15. Even in the current allocation, rural youth receive less than R250 000 allocation in the proposed budget while “individuals” receive R10 million. Individuals whose names, organisations and reasons for their funding are not stipulated. 16. Like it happened before, the NYDA will be praised by the Deputy Minister because it is now led by the Young Communist League and its employees have relations with the Deputy Minister. 17. This department has failed to provide adequate monitoring and evaluation of service delivery outcomes in order to prevent mass dissatisfaction that leads to the thousands of service delivery protects that this country witnesses. 18. The monitoring of the NYDA will also fail because there are many conflicting issues at play in the current leadership of the agency. Going forward the EFF believes that this department should: 1. Co-ordinate all efforts that seek to realise the development of the productive forces in South Africa. The planning commission should have the capacity to monitor progress in terms of industrial policy. 2. Mainstream youth development in all sectors of government, all government departments and all public institutions should employ a minimum of 40% of their workforce from people between the ages of 18 and 35. 3. This department should make sure that the budget funds are allocated to actual youth development programmes, especially for the development or rural and township youth. Instead of individual beneficiaries and salaries. 4. This department should strengthen and make autonomous Monitoring and Evaluation of Government programmes and activities which will publicly announce whether government reached its set objectives within 6 months intervals. 5. Put in a place a mechanism which will punish those who do not perform their work because now most people who fail in their duties just gain promotion to a senior responsibility. Until these objectives are achieved. The EFF rejects this budget I thank you
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