The department's main task is to conduct oversight over the executive to ... [Inaudible.] ... effective and efficient development and professional Public Service. The Public Service in all departments of government needs to ensure that employees who render
services to people are well trained, knowledgeable and efficient.
Over the last few weeks we have seen various departments struggling to address fruitless and wasteful expenditure and in most cases ... [Inaudible.] The public's confidence in departments is declining due to the level of corruption, administration and fraud.
We see increasing levels of frustration by workers of the state that fall into the lower tiers of departments, and they are quite often not the ones responsible for corrupt activities, yet when government is in dire straits they are the first ones to have their jobs cut. Again, the burden of mismanagement from the elite is shifted onto the working class and the poor.
We need to find a way for all senior and junior staff in the department to have equal accountability. In this department ... mandate to find such solutions to this. One possible solution will be that the performance contracts should be interlinked in order to incentivise
... the co-operation between senior and junior staff when the time comes to determine bonuses.
Furthermore, as with individuals, entire departments are unique ... must also ... [Inaudible.] ... face consequences. In various departments we see that they have continuously received qualified audits over the past five- year reported financial period. As a result of a lack of consequences, departments do not show a willingness to want to fix their problems.
Issues of irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure are among the most prevalent, and show a clear lack of will by the government to focus on the primary business of bringing service delivery to people. The IFP supports the reports. [Applause.] This report I have read was for Inkosi R Cebekhulu.