WC 'best-run province' - Saiga

[OrbitalDawn]

Link.

The Democratic Alliance’s (DA’s) election campaign has received a major boost from the ranking of the Western Cape as the best-run province by the South African Institute of Government Auditors (Saiga) in the 2013 Public Sector Reporting Awards.

The provincial department of agriculture was ranked the best-run department in the country for the second year in a row.

Saiga is an independent institution established in terms of the constitution. It ranks national and provincial departments on financial management based on categories such as financial performance, cash flow and accounting policies.

In past elections, the DA has tended to refer to its "track record" governing the Western Cape, where it has been in control since 2009, and it looks set to employ this strategy again going into next year’s polls.

"The Western Cape model of clean governance can be implemented in the rest of the country, through the ballot box," said DA co-operative governance and traditional affairs spokesperson John Steenhuisen.

"The outstanding performance by Western Cape government departments, as confirmed by Saiga, shows that with the correct management systems, decisive leadership and the political will, proper financial management of public funding is possible," he said.

He said the DA was campaigning to govern more provinces in 2014. "We are doing so because we believe that all of South Africa deserves clean governance and prudent management of public funding in order to improve service delivery."

Saiga also ranked departments according to the most consistent best performers over the past three years. In this category, seven of the top 10 departments were in the Western Cape government: agriculture, transport and public works, environmental affairs, provincial parliament, community safety, health‚ and economic development. Completing the list was the national Department of Labour, the Free State provincial treasury and the KwaZulu-Natal department of human settlements.

Saiga executive president Dieter Gloeck said Treasury regulations and the statutory performance reporting requirements of the Public Finance Management Act provided the public with "a wealth of information not only about the financial results of the departments in an understandable format, but also gave a detailed account of the objectives that were set and whether these objectives were met".

Further information that has to be disclosed includes reasons for nonperformance and actions taken to rectify the situation.

"If the financial and performance disclosure requirements are compared to those of the private sector, and especially listed companies that attract investments from the general public, it becomes clear to what extent the private-sector accountability arrangements lag behind the public sectors’. Yet the media award hardly any attention to the achievements in terms of financial reporting in the public sector," Gloeck said.

Who'd have thunk it?

 

[Thingyyyyyy]

Must be a lie. It can't be true.

Now in about two seconds that other dude is going to be here telling us about the concentration camps and the bad things in WC.

 

[Sinbad]

SAIGA must be imperialist agents of oppression and white supremacy.

 

[Cool E]

Good news.

 

[Sinbad]

Good news.

How many people have access to this account?

 

[Thingyyyyyy]

How many people have access to this account?

I suspect him and intel is the same person....

But then I think Redeemed and Intel is the same person

I'm starting to think it is just one big trollololol al day long

 

[Devill]

How many people have access to this account?

Only his four personalities

 

[Fulcrum29]

I suspect him and intel is the same person....

But then I think Redeemed and Intel is the same person

I'm starting to think it is just one big trollololol al day long

Cool E is a troll gone down the drain, he/she have so many contradictions already…

 

[Kornhub]

No

 

[Ancalagon]

Proudly brought to you by the.... DA?

 

[Cool E]

How many people have access to this account?

Unable to answer that question.

But we all know that DA is doing well in that province. And the challenges that WC faces is not the same as in other provinces. WOuld like them to focus more on safety and security. And Being unable to win the drugs crisis.

 

[CAPS LOCK]

The independent Kingdom of Western Cape FTW..

 

[CAPS LOCK]

Unable to answer that question.

But we all know that DA is doing well in that province. And the challenges that WC faces is not the same as in other provinces. WOuld like them to focus more on safety and security. And Being unable to win the drugs crisis.

The report is not about challenges, but administration and governance, or lack thereof.

 

[Sinbad]

The report is not about challenges, but administration and governance, or lack thereof.

He's right that the WC faces different challenges to the rest of the country:

WC challenges: drugs, crime
Rest of SA challenges: ANC government (ie, organised crime)

 

[Cool E]

He's right that the WC faces different challenges to the rest of the country:

WC challenges: drugs, crime,unhabitat houses,proverty,refugees etc etc
Rest of SA challenges: ANC government (ie, organised crime)

seems okay.

 

[b1scu1t]

Wonder what that DAnger clown would say now? He said in the comments of that etoll billboards article that the money of the billboards could've been spent on other more important things.

Isn't it just amazing how you have funding when it doesn't get stolen?!

Just imagine the DA controlling Gauteng it would be so nice to live in country where the clock is ticking clockwise.... Or ticking at all?

 

[Sinbad]

Wonder what that DAnger clown would say now? He said in the comments of that etoll billboards article that the money of the billboards could've been spent on other more important things.

Isn't it just amazing how you have funding when it doesn't get stolen?!

Just imagine the DA controlling Gauteng it would be so nice to live in country where the clock is ticking clockwise.... Or ticking at all?

It's ticking fine, but it's been stolen and installed at Nkandla.

 

[CAPS LOCK]

He's right that the WC faces different challenges to the rest of the country:

WC challenges: drugs, crime
Rest of SA challenges: ANC government (ie, organised crime)

I'm not ignorant to that, but should these challenges really mitigate against bad administration? The report measures management, not challenges.

 

[b1scu1t]

It's ticking fine, but it's been stolen and installed at Nkandla.

LOL

 

[Cool E]

Wonder what that DAnger clown would say now? He said in the comments of that etoll billboards article that the money of the billboards could've been spent on other more important things.

Isn't it just amazing how you have funding when it doesn't get stolen?!

Just imagine the DA controlling Gauteng it would be so nice to live in country where the clock is ticking clockwise.... Or ticking at all?

if it happens i will sell my house. Gauteng its fine under ANC.