Treasury: DA too generous

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The DA-run City of Cape Town is "over-generous" in its provision of subsidised services, according to an assessment of the city's 2015/16 annual budget by the Treasury.

Free basic services like water, refuse removal and sanitation cost the city R1.9-billion a year.

Based on statistics provided by the city, the municipality has 382000 indigents registered on its database but it provides 6000 litres of free water to 1.1-million households, a number that's growing each year, the Treasury reports.

It also says the city provides 50kWh of free electricity a month to 382000 households and provides weekly free refuse removal to 445000 households.

The Treasury report stated: "The city should proceed cautiously in providing over-generous subsidised services as this construes revenue forgone."

The Treasury assesses budgets that municipalities table, and evaluates whether the budgets were fully funded and featured "sufficient political oversight" and public participation.

"The cost of providing free basic services to indigents [is] increasing steadily. The revenue cost of free basic services increased to R2.7-billion in 2015/16 [and will increase to] to R3.3-billion in 2016/17," the document stated.

The city was unable to respond to questions at the time of going to print, but the Treasury report was tabled to the mayoral committee on Tuesday. It will be presented at a full council meeting next month.

Local government expert Karen Heese, from Municipal IQ, agreed with the Treasury's assessments.

She also warned that certain residents receiving indigent support did not qualify as indigent.

"It comes down to how well the municipality handles its indigent list," she said, adding that it might seem as if, while the municipality was spending a lot of money to support indigents, there were other communities in need of support.

ANC chief whip Xolani Sotashe said he smelled a rat, claiming: "I think the city adds people who do not qualify and classifies them as indigent. You would understand why they are doing that: they want to massage their electorate."
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http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/09/17/Treasury-DA-too-generous
doing to much good for the anc's liking
:wtf:
 
Can't seem to get their story straight can they? On the one hand they have Tony Ehrenreich claiming the DA does nothing for the poor and on the other the central government saying they do too much.

Shouldn't the important question be whether overall they provide better and more efficient services, and that they fund this themselves at least as much as any other municipality?

The Treasury assesses budgets that municipalities table, and evaluates whether the budgets were fully funded and featured "sufficient political oversight"
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How then does any ANC-controlled municipality get a pass?

ANC chief whip Xolani Sotashe said he smelled a rat, claiming: "I think the city adds people who do not qualify and classifies them as indigent. You would understand why they are doing that: they want to massage their electorate."
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That's hilarious coming from the ANC, a den of rats unwilling to tell their voters the bitter truth.
 
You know, while I was reading the article I could sort of see what Treasury was on about - giving warning to Cape Town etc.

...and then the last paragraph happened. Why did they have to include the last paragraph and cite the kindergarten's opinion.
 
while the municipality was spending a lot of money to support indigents, there were other communities in need of support
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Give to one and not the other. How do you decide who is in greater need of support?
And, aren’t the free services in line with Governments policies to provide basic services?
 
The DA: Spending their budget on services that change lives.

the anc: Spending money to change the cadres lives.
 
I think Eskom is over generous in its provision of "subsidised" services to Soweto
 
noxibox said:
Can't seem to get their story straight can they? On the one hand they have Tony Ehrenreich claiming the DA does nothing for the poor and on the other the central government saying they do too much.

Shouldn't the important question be whether overall they provide better and more efficient services, and that they fund this themselves at least as much as any other municipality?


How then does any ANC-controlled municipality get a pass?


That's hilarious coming from the ANC, a den of rats unwilling to tell their voters the bitter truth.
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Like all good little communists, their whole thought process is littered with contradiction. "No racial discrimination", with policies of racial discrimination ."Respect the law", whilst ignoring it.
 
LaraC said:
Give to one and not the other. How do you decide who is in greater need of support?
And, aren’t the free services in line with Governments policies to provide basic services?
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I was just going to say that, it was the ANC that came up with government polices to provide free services, now they're bitching because the DA does it better than they can
 
Pilgrim said:
I suppose by ANC standards the City of Cape Town's budget is wrong yes. However the CoCT does not have to budget 50% to corruption.

Amazing how much more you can do for your people when you don't steal half the money hey :D
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Well said.
 
JStrike said:
The Treasury is not the ANC. Please try not conflate party and state.
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Sure. But probably fair to say that that's really more technically correct. In practice, the Treasury is well staffed by the ANC and hence it would be hard not to have ANC influence on the comments.

Similarly, our government has accepted that Jacob Zuma did no wrong with Nkandla and hence doesn't need to repay a cent. Practically, the ANC made that decision and enforced it via their unfortunate majority.
 
rsfriend said:
Sure. But probably fair to say that that's really more technically correct. In practice, the Treasury is well staffed by the ANC and hence it would be hard not to have ANC influence on the comments.

Similarly, our government has accepted that Jacob Zuma did no wrong with Nkandla and hence doesn't need to repay a cent. Practically, the ANC made that decision and enforced it via their unfortunate majority.
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The journalist is mixing the two. Why would you have the opinion of the ANC whip and not a response by the DA?

Treasury (the reason for the article, along with the actual issue) and comments from some expert seems a good way to go for this kind of article. Then ANC. LOL
 
JStrike said:
The Treasury is not the ANC. Please try not conflate party and state.

But well done to the DA!
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If you had to guess, how many executive members of the Treasury belong to or support the ANC?
 
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