Honourable Premier of the Eastern Cape, Honourable Speaker, Honourable MECs, Honourable Members of the Legislature, Ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. The Financial Oversight Report for the period April to September shows us that the Department has underspent its budget by R1.310 million. Hon Speaker, it is with great concern that this department has yet again underspent its budget for the library and archives services by R13. 292 million. According to …
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Honourable Premier of the Eastern Cape, Honourable Speaker, Honourable MECs, Honourable Members of the Legislature, Ladies and gentlemen The role of this Department stretches much further than sport, recreation, arts and culture. It stretches to the future generations; it influences the quality of people produced by our lovely province. Sport, we all know what sport is and most of us at some time on our lifetime have played a sport. …
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The Financial Oversight Report for the period April to September shows us that the Department has underspent by R26, 3 million. Administration however overspent by R4, 2 million which went to compensation of employees. Compensation of employees has been discussed at length during the debates over the last few days. Increasingly there will be tough competition amongst the programs of the department fighting for scarce resources. Over expenditure on personnel …
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There is a total lack of proper planning and budgeting in the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture. The abundance of talented people in our province need assistance in the form of infrastructure, exposure, and back-up support. But the government is eating up its Sport, Arts and Culture budget with little going to our people. A total of R202 754 million — or almost a third — of the …
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Hon. Speaker, Madam Premier, Hon. Members of the House, and Guests of the House… The report tabled by the Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture Portfolio Committee today shows nothing more than the blatant disregard that the department has for this House of Parliament, each one of the members sitting here, the ruling party of this province and most importantly… disrespect for the people of this province that they serve.
When sitting down to write my speech for today’s debate, I found myself in a bit of a quagmire. Do I talk about the facts and the figures, like that fact that the Democratic Alliance welcomes the 8.64% increase in Cultural Affairs and the 44.67% increase in Library and Information Services.