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LASHES OUT: Scopa chairman Themba Godi

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THE ANC has allowed itself to be painted as indecisive and reluctant to act swiftly and this has had a crippling effect on the functioning of provincial departments.

This, according to the chairman of Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), Themba Godi, had led to these departments paying staff more than they spent on delivering services.

Godi said yesterday this dissatisfaction was evidenced by sporadic service delivery protests.

He said while the ANC government made efforts to correct the wrongs, its officials still held narrow political interests at the expense of provincial departments.

Godi said these departments had to battle with problems ranging from personnel spending, supply chain and expenditure control to those related to human resources.

"You find that there are people in office whose orientation is getting the best for themselves out of the system even at the expense of service delivery and people who do not have the requisite skills," he said.

He conceded that, as per the recommendations made by the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) to the National Council of Provinces, the cabinet's intervention framework was underdeveloped and needed to be tightened.

The North West and KwaZulu-Natal departments of education were earlier this year found to be among the culprits who were spending most of their funds on ghost teachers.

FFC chairman Bongani Khumalo said human resource systems and practises across the nine provinces were not in place or failing.

"Generally, if overspending on personnel is a true reflection of pressures on provincial budgets, it may be necessary for government to undertake an audit of all its employees.

"This would ensure that no funds were lost due to 'ghost' personnel or double payments.

"Organisational design interventions would then ensure that there was an appropriate mix of skills, front line versus back office personnel and so on," Khumalo said.

At the heart of the matter is national government's negotiations strategy which is outside direct control of provinces.

- nhlabathih@sowetan.co.za

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Jul 19, 2012

ntshware-ke-yawa

so do something about them,if they don't have requisite skills then why the hell are they still hanging in our public offices.
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Jul 19, 2012

mporoza

@ Ntshware
The deployed cadres contribute 10% of their salaries to the ANC monthly that's is why they can't be fired and hence we cannot get competent people in the public service. Just imagine a CA earning say R120 000.000 per month expected to give 10% to the ANC whilst he can get the same salary from the private sector, where do you think he will go? The deployment of cadres is a money making scheme for the ANC, just like tenders. In fact the ANC is a labour broker due to this practice. This also extents to tenders, a comrade wins a tender a portion will have to be "donation" to the ANC.

AND THEY TELL US ABOUT CORRUPTION!!
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Jul 19, 2012

Shredder

More 'spent on pay than on services!!

Exactly. This was my argument yesterday on teachers pay; especially entry level. Some people thought R10 000 is too little for entry level teachers. Nc! Nc! Nc! Nc!. Actually it is a lot.
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Jul 19, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

mporoza
@ Ntshware
The deployed cadres contribute 10% of their salaries to the ANC monthly that's is why they can't be fired and hence we cannot get competent people in the public service. Just imagine a CA earning say R120 000.000 per month expected to give 10% to the ANC whilst he can get the same salary from the private sector, where do you think he will go? The deployment of cadres is a money making scheme for the ANC, just like tenders. In fact the ANC is a labour broker due to this practice. This also extents to tenders, a comrade wins a tender a portion will have to be "donation" to the ANC
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Chief you are talking toilet tissues what there is no such in our movement do not confuse the movememnt to a church your hatres for our movement is fueling this aduro of lies, please get fact broer!!!!!

As for this SCOPA guy how much is he earning, ever since he was tasked to run SCOPA there is fkol that that he did, but to wait for end of july every year to run his mouth, the NEC was correct SCOPA must fall under Public Protector Office atlist something will happen. Themba you are doing fkol chief please consider stepping down!!!!
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Jul 19, 2012

WakeUpSouthAfrica

Yeah we know this. The ANC is incompetent and corrupt and its affecting service delivery.

WE KNOW THIS.
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Jul 19, 2012

Hail

I have the problem when we keep finding problems without the solutions. I thought it was for Scopa to find problem and find solution too. Is very sad that there are ghost personnel that are getting paid. How does that happen? what is the pupose of persal numbers? The whole people that are responsible must be fired! I mean what are the HR people doing? where do the payment go to?
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Jul 19, 2012

Lehido

Ohoooooooooo Themba, whatever the hell your name is.......
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Jul 19, 2012

mporoza

Morena
Are you denying the fact the the ANC has given a tender to Hitachi and then acquired shares from the same company? what do you call that if it's not corruption?
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Jul 19, 2012

swona

is godi using SCOPA to score political points?
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Jul 19, 2012

Thitanwi

Every time the auditor general does the audit for the government departments, recommendations are made on how to deal with the risks that have been identified. However, there is nobody who does the implementation of those recommendations. Same can be said about SCOPA, they will identify the problems but who should implement the solutions. In fact, some of the people who are supposed to implement solutions do not even know what a qualified audit report means or the seriousness of such a report.









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