Manuel scores 7 out of 10

[DWPTA]

Manuel scores 7 out of 10
06/12/2006 13:03 - (SA)

Cape Town - Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Science Minister Mosibudi Mangena are government's top 2006 performers, while Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang continues to languish at the bottom of the class, according to the Democratic Alliance's end-of-year Cabinet Report Card.

The document, launched by DA leader Tony Leon at a media briefing in Cape Town on Wednesday, scores Manuel seven out of 10 on its performance scale - one point down on last year, but high enough to leave him way ahead of many of his colleagues.

It credits the finance minister with having the best-run department in government, and pays tribute to the "general sense of balance" it says he has displayed towards his tasks.

Mangena, who also scored seven, is praised in the report for actively seeking new opportunities to develop South Africa's technological capacity.

SA's pressing problems

The report gives President Thabo Mbeki a "middling five", for the third year in a row. It says the president has shown little of the strong purposeful leadership required to head off many of South Africa's pressing problems.

His deputy, however, earned herself six-and-a-half points, thanks largely, says the DA, to her achievement in "negotiating a turnabout on the government's unforgivable foot-dragging on HIV/Aids".

The report says Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has "brought an admirable realism to bear on the issue" of Aids, but warns the jury is still out on her leadership of government's Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGISA).

The report deals harshly with Tshabalala-Msimang's performance, which Leon described as "a perfect zero".

"As with last year, it has proved to be impossible to find anything good to say about Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and she again scores nought.

"The DA can only say that it hopes reports of her side-lining have not been exaggerated, and that by next year we will have a more able appointment to evaluate," it states.

Low-scoring cabinet members, who all scored a scant two out of 10, include Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana, and Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.

The report says the latter achieved notoriety this year for "a lack of openness and transparency, a generally contemptuous and arrogant approach to the public, and his refusal to acknowledge the seriousness of South Africa's crime problems".

Despite repeated requests, Nqakula had also refused to lift an unofficial moratorium on quarterly crime statistics.

A political lightweight

Mapisa-Nqakula is strongly criticised for "another year of pandemonium" in her department.

"It has become patently obvious [she] is not up to the job of managing this complex and increasingly rickety institution."

Leon said her department was an "absolute nightmare", and the bulk of complaints about government sent to the DA had to do with people's battle to obtain identity documents and passports.

The report says Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has "not shown much of a sense of urgency" in deciding how government should respond to the threat of global warning.

It endorses a view he is a political lightweight, "unable to press for environmental considerations to take precedence over development", and scores him a five, one point down on last year.

According to the report, cabinet's average score for the year is 4.3, down on last year's 4.5, and the five points earned in 2004.

Well done Manuel & Mangena, the other lot can alot from you guys

 

[jontyB]

so where's Ivy?

 

[DWPTA]

They couldn't give a negative score I presume.

 

[mikef]

so where's Ivy?

I am sure she has a negative score - we are most definitively moving backward

 

[BTTB]

What this tells me is that the Government knows how to collect money, but fail to apply it.

 

[RoosTa]

[re-write]What this tells me is that the Government knows how to collect money and line their own pockets

 

[chiskop]

The Report Card not available on the DA website, just a PR:

Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, for example, has fallen steadily in the DA’s rankings over the past three years because of her ongoing reluctance to take on Telkom, whose monopolistic practices make South Africa one of the most expensive places in the world to communicate.

No raw scores provided.

 

[bwana]

Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, for example, has fallen steadily in the DA’s rankings over the past three years because of her ongoing reluctance to take on Telkom, whose monopolistic practices make South Africa one of the most expensive places in the world to communicate.

No mention of the actual score though. Fair assessment though.

 

[Bona Botse]

Trevor should be the next president. (i know some forumites wanna start some "he's not black enough" crap, so would they rather not?)
(thanx)

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Ok here are the important scores

Dr. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri - 4 [down from 5 in 2005]

Dr. Lindiwe Sisulu [Housing] - 3 [down from 5 in 2005]

Naledi Pandor - 4 [down from 5 in 2005]

If you want to know any other ministers' scores, don't hesitate to ask [I've got the table in front of me, but in a newspaper]

 

[savage]

Manual deservs his 7... Give him the telecoms portfolio, we'll be waxed in 6 months!! :>

 

[b166er]

Trevor kicks ass...I never miss a budget speech.

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

And as usual, the ANC government don't give a hoot about any reports.

IOL

Cabinet has dismissed opposition parties' end of year "report cards" on its performance, saying it will not be judged by the wish lists of opposition parties.

"The 'silly' season is upon us and with it comes the publication of the so-called 'score-cards' by the opposition parties,"government communications (GCIS) chief Themba Maseko told journalists after Cabinet's final fortnightly meeting of the year.

"Government has a programme of action to improve the life of our people," he said.

This programme was based on the mandate this government received from the electorate.

"Therefore, we will disregard all these opposition play-cards, because our performance must, and will, be judged against our implementation of the programme of action and not the wish lists of position parties."

 

[Syndyre]

Ivy should have gotten 0 along with Manto.

 

[chiskop]

And as usual, the ANC government don't give a hoot about any reports.

IOL

Well, to be fair how would the DA react if the ANC released a report grading the efforts of the DA leadership?

It is an attempt by the DA to get press coverage. That's not to say that there aren't some valid criticisms, but lets not pretend that the DA don't have an axe to grind.

 

[Angelo]

Trevor should be the next president.

He's not interested, simple as that.

 

[Bona Botse]

He's not interested, simple as that.

really? thats a real shame and loss for us then
oh well, jacob zuma, here we go!
roflmao