Thank you hon Minister for your response. I just want to check with you, what strategy is in place to ensure an effective and sustainable implementation of consequence management? I thank you.
The MINISTER IN THE PRESIDENCY FOR PLANNING, MONITORING
AND EVALUATION: Hon member, the Department of Public Service and Administration will be giving us consequence management guidelines for departments to discipline officials who failed to pay invoices within stipulated framework. Thank you.
Minister, small businesses are collapsing because government refuses to pay service providers. The majority of these small businesses are black-owned. Companies are going under and families are going hungry because of the incompetence of government