Thank you cde Klaas for bringing a helicopter view to the issues. I am also of the view that the situation in Limpopo could have been handled differently as it appears to be engineered to settle political scores. This hollywood approach to issues of the corporate governance has a potential of provoking serious divisions and break-down of unity in the organisation. Much as cabinet has a responsibility to act in accordance with the Constitution, however it has a mandate of ensuring that its decisions do not depart from the Election Manifesto of the party. Above all, it has a primary responsibility of providing structures of the organisation with full and regular reports concerning matters under its control. It does not follow that the financial problems of Limpopo were only realised now, to the extent of isolating the whole problem from broader service delivery issues and singling out individuals on the entire problem which the state is faced with. The timing just perfectly gives credence to suspicions of a "fishing expedition" with media playing its part in this affair. The whole exercise of raising issues through the media bordering on slander, unnecessary insinuation and derogatory remarks against leadership. As committed cadres, we cannot fold our arms when our movement is infiltrated by neo-liberal elements hellbent at destroying a rich history of resolving issues through dialogue. Issues of the organisation must be processed internally and indiscriminately on case to case basis. To this end, I expected President Jacob Zuma to brief the NEC on the cabinet findings on the financial challenges facing three provincial governments and task NEC to meet provincial leadership of respective provinces with a quest to take immediate corrective measures. I believe through this engagement a lasting solution could have been found without names of individuals been dragged into the mud and while others using media to add salt to injury. I'm not factionalist and have no vested interest in the political developments of neither Limpopo nor Gauteng. But I'm pertubed by a glaring inconsistency and selective approach in exposing and confronting any form of wrong doing and corruption in the interest of good governance within the state. It took government almost a year to deal with obvious maladministration in both deparments of Public Works and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs because there were no extenal political scores to be settled in this case. I'm very much aggrieved by the cabinet decision of placing several provincial departments under administration while conducting an investigation to establish the cause of the situation. For me this approach places the Executive Authority under a dark cloud and legitimises allegations of wide-scale maladministration and possible criminal intent against those fingered on suspicion. Many of us believed in the new order at hand after Polokwane and hoped that the elected officials will hold the centre together. I guess the rot lies at the top. Remain, Morgan Phaahla Ekurhuleni
"Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology." - Joe Slovo --- On Wed, 12/14/11, Klaas Nono Mabunda <[email protected]> wrote: From: Klaas Nono Mabunda <[email protected]> Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Masondo not Judas but David To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011, 11:10 AM The systems of public administration should and remain key to the benefit of both the poor and the rich as per their citizenry privileges, the society and equally the civil society are solely dependant on the government in the provision of surviving essential services. Regardless of generation of revenue, equitable shares as per budgetary allocations intends at ensuring that the infrastructure development and social responsibilities of the state to the people are addressed, financial problems of the state at a particular department cannot be isolated from service delivery and limited to corruption singling out an individual on the entire problem the state is faced with. Institutions of service delivery finds themselves in monetary challenges not on basis of mismanagement but due to initially limited money provided to them and furthermore the inherited problems in question. The development and arising of this issues are done in an inconsiderate circumstances politics submits to the legislative being in settling external scores within the internal pact, in consequence of it all, the sober approach to the placing of the departments under an authority of an Administrator seeks to undermine the fidelity voters entrusted to the ANC to better their lives not limit the provision of service to an authority of an individual who cannot manage effectively through utter the demands our people in an expense of granting the departments the overdrafts to pay service providers and continue with other related dues by government to the people. Against reality and pseudo to understanding the mandate of departments or let alone their existence, unpopular decision to put the government under administration continues to ridicule us the citizens of Limpopo to recklessness, i wish to state on record that the decision by the national government is misguided as even the departments which received clean audits over many financial years are thought to be mismanaging funds. The provincial government under the leadership of Cde. Ngoako Ramahlodi has anguished serious financial challenges and actually operated under severe overdrafts dating back from the year 1999, ranging at R600 million in financial year 2003/2004, R1.2 Billion in 2006/2007 R1.7 Billion in 2010/2011, caused by mainly the 76.5% resulting from compensation of employees in social sector, in particular the unfunded OSD mandate, goods and services particularly under learner support material, medicine, transfers to NGOs and schools, negative impact of wage settlement, incomplete projects from previous years and natural disasters to schools. There has been consistent decline in the Equitable shares from 13.8% in 2006/2007 to 12.7% in 2011/2012 and it will decline further to 12.6%, 12.5% and 12.4% in the coming three financial periods. These actually suggest that the problem has always existed and to our deepest concern is that why wasn’t the issue addressed then or why weren’t the section 100 (b) imposed as the financial situation suggested the same action if indeed the current decision has the interest of the society at heart as claimed, this brings us to a conscious paralysis if is to whether the action is a fishing expedition or a technocratic fixing of the state. Imposing or effecting Section 100(b). In terms of the constitution of the Republic of South Africa, it Section 100 is imposed when a province cannot or does not fulfil an executive obligation in terms of legislation or the constitution, the national executive may intervene by taking any appropriate steps to ensure fulfilment of that obligation, (b) i. is intended at maintaining essential national standard or meet established minimum standards for the rendering of a service ii. maintain economic unity iii. maintain national security, or iv. prevent that province from taking unreasonable action that is prejudicial to the interest of another province or to the country as a whole. The YCLSA Limpopo ‘s statement in itself is an emotional response to those that are raising issues of scrupulous precedence before any decision can be taken, and of course the inkling that Cde. David Masondo, has raised the offending, political, administrative, unnecessary insinuation and derogatory remarks, seems more to me that the YCLSA Limpopo has allowed their brains to elude the reality that a man cannot fold his arms whilst he is discriminatorily processed, these on its own can manifest a thinking that the same Alliance partners are the source of the systems’ collapse. The decision of course as per the Constitution of the RSA, 1996, does not bid the National Government any legislative obligation to consult or enter into any discussion before effecting Section 100(1)(b), however, measures for such a determination cannot be haphazardly taken before in-depth analysis and intervention such as perhaps audit and any investigative measure to grasp the occurrences and thus the decision is devoit of any revolutionary and administrative truth, that is the reason why the YCLSA Limpopo believes that Cde. David ‘s remarks purports to sow an unnecessary scandalous image and reputation of the National Government. The YCLSA Limpopo ‘s statement then allows us with an opportunity to undermine their actual indulgence on penalties of the implementation of Section 100 to our people, particularly the poor and the working class whom you seek to be their voice, as badly needed services are suspended, therefore decision by the National Cabinet does not speak to the legislative mandate particularly on measures to be at least followed before the section is put in force because there are measures put in place by the Limpopo Provincial Treasury to ensure that the situation is contained, but clearly speaks to the nation and the province that politics plays an insulting role in dealing with the Premier as a toolkit to tarnish his reputation as a means to turn delegated to the Elective Congress of the ANC against him and present him as a failure who was unable to manage public accounts. Petty politicking is made to undermine the livelihood of the residents of Limpopo and surrender emerging entrepreneurs to being in limbo as putting the Department of Treasury under Administration in utter means that financial administration of the Limpopo province is halting the financial transactions. The ruling party alongside the legislature should define its role in the adoption of section 100 and 139 of the constitution, if need arise voice out or amend or clearly speak on processes to be exhausted before enforcing. Specific legislation should be passed to force the executive to state the specific problems and interventions to limit the abuse of power. Incumbent and past ANC deployees (this includes Ramahlodi, Moloto and Mathale) must take responsibilities for successes and failures of the ANC Government. If Wage settlements is not concluded before finalisation of budget, the financial problems facing provincial government will not end, as a result the National Government will be engaged with effecting Section100 and add on the problems. The delegation to the envisaged provincial congress of the ANC Limpopo will be better positioned to confine themselves within the decision and its impact on the masses of our people and pass a harmonious resolution on the matter in question. Cde. Ntsepeng must focus on building branches of the YCLSA than to speak a technical and an attempting to convince English, the YCLSA supposes to be a poor biased organisation not a complainant. Masondo is correct that the action is a fishing expedition not a technocratic fixing of the state. 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