288. Mr D B Haddon to ask the MEC responsible for Local Government and Traditional Affairs: (1) Whether all municipalities in the province had Performance Audit committees in place as at the latest specified date for which information is available; if not, (a) why not, (b) which specified municipalities do not have such committees in [...]

Premier: 278. Mr R S Stevenson to ask the Premier: (1) (a) How many departments in the province had (i) permanent and (ii) acting heads of department as at the latest specified date for which information is available and (b) what is the name of each department concerned; (2) (a) how long have those departments [...]

THE Provincial Legislature wants the Eastern Cape provincial administration to take tougher action against civil servants who mismanage taxpayers’ money . This emerged on Tuesday following public hearings by the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) last week, where eight departments were scrutinised for their 2008-9 audit reports. The Democratic Alliance’s Bobby Stevenson said Scopa’s [...]

R3 billion is the budgetary shortfall that is projected for Health and Education in the current financial year “if nothing is done”. This was the response of the MEC for Finance, Mcibisi Jonas, to a follow-up question of mine during the oral questioning time in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature yesterday (subs: wed: 25 Aug). [...]

Resolving the challenges facing the Eastern Cape Education and Health departments was “critical for the livelihood of the province”, Finance MEC Mcebisi Jonas said yesterday. He was replying to a debate on a report by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on departmental accounts for the 2007/08 financial year. Speaking during the debate, DA [...]

The Safer Schools programme is not just relevant to the local school community but also to society as a whole. In recent times we have experienced a rise in incidents of violence in our schools. Reports indicate incidents of bullying, intimidation, fist fights, knife fights, theft, shootings, inter personal violence and rape in our schools.

Your recent reports on the findings of the Auditor-General on the state of our Education and Health Departments refer: The Democratic Alliance believes that there are a number of action steps that can be taken immediately to improve the administration of our failing Health and Education Departments which have received bad audit reports (adverse opinions [...]

Date: 24 August 2010 SPEECH NOTES – BOBBY STEVENSON, MPL, LEGISLATURE LEADER, SPOKESPERSON ON FINANCE SPEAKING ON THE SCOPA REPORT FOR THE 2007/8 FINANCIAL YEAR This report is a tragic indictment on the lack of administrative and political accountability that exists in this Province. Year in and year out the same issues continue to haunt [...]

It is understandable that members of the SAPS in the Eastern Cape are fed-up that they haven’t received their payments for extra duties performed during the Soccer World Cup. It’s now six weeks since the World Cup and the delay in payment is creating a sour note over what was a very successful event. Frustrated [...]