Scopa cannot hold ministers accountable: ANC

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Life according to the ANC :D

This word accountability is a no no it seems.


The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) cannot hold ministers accountable for what happens in their departments. That’s the word from the ANC Caucus in Parliament today.

This follows an ongoing debate with Scopa about ministers refusing to appear before the committee to account for spending in the departments. The ANC has been non-commital about this issue for months. Despite discussing it at a Caucus Lekgotla late last year.

Chief Whip of the ANC Caucus, Dr. Mathole Motshekga, says: “The ministers are not responsible for the day to day running of their departments. They are in fact responsible for policy and we expect them to run the country and not be running between Pretoria and Cape Town to answer things that the administrators can answer”.
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Can just imagine how loosely these performance contracts will be drawn up following JZ's speech.

After going backwards with delivery from education to housing to performance criteria, JZ's attempt at partly implementing what was done away with by the ANC is now facing mounting resistance from within his party.


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ANC fail again.

How much you want to bet that the sheep will bleat about them being victimised.
 
Is Malema going to bring out the Pedi dictionary again?
O wait, playing I'm not responsibaal is the favorite past-time.
 
ministers are not responsible for the day to day running of their departments
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Fine, but who is then?

ANC accountability seems to be based mostly on the Not My Problem principle. That and a lot of "Eish" responses.
 
AnomalyNexus said:
Fine, but who is then?
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Director General (DG) would be my best bet.
Same as the Chief Executive is accountable for the things that go wrong with the day to day operations of a company. But I could be wrong. The minister's mandate is perhaps to determine policy and DG to implement. But, I could be wrong, I'm not very farmiliar with the public servants's RACI model.
 
and the DG is accountable to the minister, and the minister is accountable to parliament for his/her portfolio, thats the way it should work at least.

The buck stops at the top in all organisations.
 
Sneeky said:
and the DG is accountable to the minister, and the minister is accountable to parliament for his/her portfolio, thats the way it should work at least.

The buck stops at the top in all organisations.
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Aye but every stag should know what his does are doing.
 
Hey it's the Ubuntu way nobody is accountable for anything. That way we are all equal. If we can hold them accountable we are discriminating against them.
Pfft!! You guys never get it do you:rolleyes:
 
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