Business Report
*Future of provinces in doubt as cabinet steps in* /Excerpts/ *Business Report, 7 December 2011 */[Below are some paragraphs from a mixed report that tries to float a DA point of view in between material that is critical of the provinces, so as to create an appearance of a "win-win" for the DA. Whereas it is within the ANC that the critique of the provinces is located, while the DA openly seeks to use the provincial layer as a means of "divide and rule", which is the purpose for which the provinces were extracted by the Nats during CODESA. In this case, we can better use the remarks on the provinces when they are separated from the opportunistic noise that the journalists are injecting from the DA side.]/
The national government's intervention in three provinces -- Limpopo, the Free State and Gauteng -- does not portend well for the future of provinces, with the ANC having hinted in the past that their number could be reduced from nine or scrapped altogether.
Five departments -- those of education, health, treasury, public works and roads and transport -- had been put under national government administration after the Limpopo reported a budget deficit of R1.5 billion.
MECs, department heads and chief financial officers would be replaced temporarily by acting national government officials, cabinet spokesman Jimmy Manyi announced.
National Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will lead the investigation and clean-up of the Health Department.
The interventions may also be the first in a set of actions that will ultimately pull the plug on the provinces for good.
* **From: http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/future-of-provinces-in-doubt-as-cabinet-steps-in-1.1193540?showComments=true*
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