Wed May 22 16:04:58 SAST 2013

5 provinces fail to use all their budget grants

Sep 7, 2012 | Denise Williams | 27 comments

FIVE provincial departments of health have underspent their Hospital Revitalisation Grant Allocations by a staggering R800-million.

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Sep 7, 2012

Vhamsanda

You cannot expect incompetent deployees to be efficient.
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Sep 7, 2012

DJ-Winner

People overspend, you complain. People underspend, you complain. ay sowetan...
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Sep 7, 2012

Senyobinyobi

When the limpopo [provincial government overspent their budget in recent years, the DA coplained and it was put under administration, now they tried to cut their cost but still they are wrong. The next thing we will hear is that there were unauthorised and unlawful expenditure. What exactly is the DA up to because even if they get the power we are still going to experience the same problem. Eish POLITICS!!!!!!!!
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Sep 7, 2012

StylesP

@DJ-Winner

Let me school you boy i can see you lack management skills.You cannot underspend when the project is not completed and you cannot overspend for no reason.I'm not happy with you level knowledge everything you say does not make sense at all !!!!!!!!!
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Sep 7, 2012

DJ-Winner

StylesP
@DJ-Winner

Let me school you boy i can see you lack management skills.You cannot underspend when the project is not completed and you cannot overspend for no reason.I'm not happy with you level knowledge everything you say does not make sense at all !!!!!!!
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You are managing your a$$, who cares? People are always looking for reasons to complain. Money is not always a reason why projects are not completed. There is a lot of aspects involved managing a project. You don't just need a money..
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Sep 7, 2012

OPZAZA

Underspending is a sign that the money allocated was too much or not needed. BUT if the state of these hospitals are unbearable, then it shows that there is a lack of service delivery arising from people who do not use the money allocated for the intended purpose.

My question now is: " where is monitoring and evaluation?". Are budgets just allocated for specific projects but no monitoring and evaluation is done to ensure that the money requested is used for the purpose for which it was requested and whether the projects are completed within the planned periods? My common knowledge tells me that this should be done during the financial year for each and every department. Correct me if i am wrong.
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Sep 7, 2012

Msiphos00

Viva Mpumalanga Viva
At least MP is not on the list
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Sep 7, 2012

Lehido

...........and at the end the money left end up being stolen..........
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Sep 7, 2012

skhokho21

Can`t we scrape the tender process, let public works employ project managers, plumbers, electricians, brick layers etc & do the work istead of giving the money away & work don`t get done.
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Sep 7, 2012

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DJ-Winner
You are managing your a$$, who cares? People are always looking for reasons to complain. Money is not always a reason why projects are not completed. There is a lot of aspects involved managing a project. You don't just need a money..
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One plan and plan and plan and then you request a budget, you don't just get one. If you are an incompetent anc cadre you planning was not right so you buggered up the budget.

So how big of an idiot does planning, request the budget he wants and stuffs it up. I think you fit right into that category.
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Sep 7, 2012

MisterGP

@Msiphos001 Dude you are so stupid!
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Sep 7, 2012

Bohlale1

This is whats happening at Marikana. Give the hard working labours that money and stop with this greedy attitudes!!! nxa.
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Sep 7, 2012

Lungu

@Msiphos00 is not on the list because they over spend here they are talking of underspending hence why MP is not there, tired of ppl like you who always isolate other areas.
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Sep 7, 2012

LELAU

the issue of underspending is when a budget is allocated for specific project for a specific financial year and the money allocated is not used for that specifi project or is not used at all. this will usually happen when the hyenas are fighting as to who get the tender, or where the tender is awarded to cronies only for the losing tender to challenge thaat awrding of tender at the court of law and the cort accordingly agree with the losing tender and the whole project is stoped as for the money already paid they arte not to recover it.!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sep 7, 2012

swona

this are the things I would appreciate if malema was to make noise about!
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Sep 7, 2012

Piosky

@DJ-Winner
People overspend, you complain. People underspend, you complain. ay sowetan...
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Exactly Bra, WAT MST THE POOR PEOPLE DO?? Spend it to the last Cent!!!!!
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Sep 7, 2012

chockstick

Can anyone From Sowetan please investigate and see what is happening at Vhufulwi Hospital in Limpopo
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Sep 7, 2012

DJ-Winner

SOLUTIONS
DJ-Winner
You are managing your a$$, who cares? People are always looking for reasons to complain. Money is not always a reason why projects are not completed. There is a lot of aspects involved managing a project. You don't just need a money..
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One plan and plan and plan and then you request a budget, you don't just get one. If you are an incompetent anc cadre you planning was not right so you buggered up the budget.

So how big of an idiot does planning, request the budget he wants and stuffs it up. I think you fit right into that category.
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There is no reason to complain here. You complain that people did not steal the money? ha ha ha ha...
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Sep 7, 2012

P4T

The reasons for not spending are known.
1. The officials have zero clue of what they are doing but they hold cushy senior government posts because of their connections
2. The officials are still looking to find an opportunity of giving the tenders to their friend/families/ANC cadres who are equally incompetent
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Sep 7, 2012

_Sinudeity

"5 provinces fail to use all their budget grants"


Apartheid! :P
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Sep 7, 2012

DJ-Winner

_Sinudeity
"5 provinces fail to use all their budget grants"


Apartheid! :P
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We did not blame your forefathers in this regard. We did not blame your forefathers that people did not steal the money.
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P4T
The reasons for not spending are known.
1. The officials have zero clue of what they are doing but they hold cushy senior government posts because of their connections
2. The officials are still looking to find an opportunity of giving the tenders to their friend/families/ANC cadres who are equally incompetent
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We don't know what happened there, you are speculating. Alteast the money was not stollen. That is why we are complaining and some people are blaming aparteid that the money was not stollen.
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Sep 7, 2012

_Sinudeity

DJ-Winner - Ur not blaming apartheid?


Weird...
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Sep 7, 2012

DJ-Winner

_Sinudeity
DJ-Winner - Ur not blaming apartheid?


Weird...
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We will blame it when it is necessary.
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Sep 7, 2012

_Sinudeity

DJ-Winner - "We will blame it when it is necessary."


No, you blame it when you want to point fingers away from your own incompetence or corruption.
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Sep 7, 2012

SetlaboswanaBoy07

Tenders will only go out if we are going to benefit, if not so, NO TENDERS

Thats how this morons work, falsify papers, if you can verify the paper work brought before tender comitees, ALL LIES
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Sep 7, 2012

DJ-Winner

_Sinudeity
DJ-Winner - "We will blame it when it is necessary."


No, you blame it when you want to point fingers away from your own incompetence or corruption.
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As I said. No one blames aparteid for slowness. We say it created problems were are trying to solve.
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Sep 9, 2012

ONLOOKER

Yet when you knock for a Tender Proposal they send you from Piller to Post, Something has to be done!

Give us these Tenders Nina Man!!
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