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Shock findings from the Auditor-General (AG) today show that the Eastern Cape government had modified audit opinions (qualified and disclaimer) for 83% of the entire provincial budget for the 2011\/12 financial year.<\/p>\n
The monetary value of all the instances where the AG expressed a qualified or disclaimer opinion on provincial finances totals R44 billion of the R53 billion budget in 2011\/12. These figures are contained in a presentation by the AG to the Eastern Cape legislature today.<\/p>\n
The Democratic Alliance views these findings as a damning indictment on the accountability and leadership being provided in government by the incumbent ANC. The financial management crisis in the Eastern Cape is a betrayal of the hopes and aspirations of the people of this province for a better life for themselves and their children. It is clear that without wide-ranging intervention, the governance crisis in the Eastern Cape will continue unabated. The poor and unemployed in this province will continue to be the worst affected.<\/p>\n
To improve accountability in the province, performance management needs to be vigorously enforced. The Public Finance Management Act and other legislation need to be invoked. Currently 93% of departments don\u2019t comply with laws and regulations, the AG has found. The AG has also found that 27% of the negative findings relating to supply chain management were due to contracts being awarded to government employees. A further 5% of the findings relate to contracts being awarded to close family, and 65% due to uncompetitive or unlawful bidding processes. Last year, this amounted to almost a billion Rand. This crisis is fuelling the winds of change which have been steadily blowing through the province as election results like the recent Nelson Mandela University SRC Elections show.<\/p>\n
The DA will continue to work towards change in the Eastern Cape on behalf of all people so we can build a province of opportunity for all.<\/p>\n
Bobby Stevenson, MPL<\/strong><\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shock findings from the Auditor-General (AG) today show that the Eastern Cape government had modified audit opinions (qualified and disclaimer) for 83% of the entire provincial budget for the 2011\/12 financial year. The monetary value of all the instances where the AG expressed a qualified or disclaimer opinion on provincial finances totals R44 billion of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-15888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}