ADDRESS TO THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE ON THE OCCASION OF
TABLING THE NORTHEN CAPE APPROPRIATION BILL OF 2005
BY MEC PAKES DIKGETSI
O9 MARCH 2005
Madame Speaker
Honourable Premier
Members of the Executive Council
Honourable Members of the Legislature
Ladies and Gentlemen
Comrades and Friends
Madame speaker
It gives me great pleasure today to table the first provincial budget in the
aftermath of our third democratic general elections. In doing this we remain
mindful of the message of hope that Premier Dipuo Peters delivered during
her state of the province address and I quote:
“Today we continue the part of our journey which began a decade ago with
the advent of democracy in South Africa. Just as our journey changed on that
momentous day in 1994, so our journey is changing again. We are going to
take a fork in the road to ensure we travel where the light shines brightest”
Premier Dipuo Peters 18 February 2005.
We are also mindful of the pledge by the congress of the people held fifty
years ago in Kliptown. This pledge embodied a vision of an alternative society
of a truly people centred democracy founded on the principle of universal
human rights. Indeed we are happy and grateful that we will be celebrating
human rights day in twelve days from today. Madame Speaker the Freedom
Charter adopted by the congress of the people in Kliptown five decades ago
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constitutes the programme of the people of our country for the creation of a
truly democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, united, and prosperous country. The
Freedom Charter continues to remain the cornerstone of our philosophy and
forms the basis for the guiding principles of our government. We will continue
to pursue the strategic goals we have set ourselves, and that is, to create a
non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa.
Reflection on the freedom charter reminds us that as South Africans we have
come a long way in confronting intolerance, inhumanity and discrimination
head on, as well as making significant inroads into the social backlogs that we
inherited from the apartheid state, while at the same time rescuing our
national economy.
Our national Minister of Finance observed correctly during his budget speech
that over the past years we have transformed social policy, which is based on
the principles of non-racialism, and non-sexism. At the same time we have
also transformed the way in which we deliver our service by entrenching the
principles of Batho Pele. He also alluded to the fact that in the years ahead
we must make more rapid progress in building a society founded on solidarity,
in which we give practical expression to our shared interest in addressing the
needs of the most vulnerable.
The budget we present today is a budget of hope. It is a budget of hope
because it is rooted in the reality of a country that is growing more confident of
its ability to meet the needs of its people while progressively rolling back
economic and social legacy of the apartheid past. We remain hopeful
because through sound financial and economic management, our government
is able to allocate more resources to building infrastructure, tackling poverty
and developing the skills base.
As a province we are also encouraged by the fact that in January this year we
launched the Northern Cape Provincial Growth and Development Strategy
(NCPGDS). In partnership with the public, private and parastatal sectors
together with labour and civil society we jointly determined a plan for the
sustainable growth and development in our province. Amongst other things,
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the NCPGDS seeks to establish the link between planning and budgeting, to
determine that provincial and local government budgets are in line with jointly
agreed objectives and to determine strategies aimed at upliftment of
designated vulnerable groups such as women, the youth, those living with
disabilities and the poor.
The primary objectives of the Northern Cape Provincial Growth and
Development Strategy are the following:
?? Promotion of the growth, diversification and transformation of the
provincial economy; and
?? Poverty Reduction through social development.
The above mentioned primary objectives are underpinned by the following
supporting objectives:
?? Development of requisite levels of human and social capital;
?? Improvement of the efficiency, effectiveness of governance and other
development institutions; and
?? Enhancing infrastructure for economic growth and social development.
In order to give effect to the objectives of the NCPGDS we set ourselves a
number of targets. Amongst other things, we intend to:
?? maintain an average annual economic growth rate of between 4 and 6
per cent;
?? halve unemployment by 2014;
?? reduce the number of households living in poverty by 5 per cent per
annum;
?? improve the literacy rate by 50 per cent by 2014;
?? provide shelter for all by 2014; and
?? redistribute 30 per cent of productive agricultural land to PDI’s by
2015.
Government, labour, private sector and civil society of the Northern Cape
have committed themselves to achieving these targets. We are committed to
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ensure that the NCPGDS becomes a living document and that continued
stakeholder consultation is the hallmark.
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Madame Speaker our budget statement for the financial year 2005/2006 is
tabled in a national economic environment of rising economic growth,
increased investment, strong business confidence, low inflation rate and low
interest rates. The Minister of Finance observed during the national budget
speech that the growth of the South African Economy has averaged 3,2 per
cent a year over the past four years. This improvement was facilitated and
supported by buoyant domestic demand and a low interest rate environment,
coupled with robust consumer and business confidence. It is against this
background that the national economic growth is expected to exceed 4 per
cent a year during the course of the next three years while inflation is likely to
remain within the target range of 3 to 6 per cent. Furthermore sound
macroeconomic policies, continuing strength of international commodity prices
and a consistent monetary policy framework has also accelerated growth and
employment creation in the South African economy. The present economic
climate demonstrates that reforms of the past decade, sound fiscal policy and
improved business confidence are now bearing fruit.
Our provincial economy has also benefited from the good performance of the
national economy. In 2002 the Northern Cape recorded an economic growth
rate of 1,3 per cent. However, in 2003 the economic growth rate increased to
1,8 per cent. This reflects an annual increase of 0,5 per cent in the regional
gross domestic product (RGDP). The mining and quarry industry at 27,1 per
cent was the largest contributor to economic growth in 2003. This was
followed by the general government services sector at 11,5 per cent and the
transport, storage and communication industry at 10,6 per cent in terms of
their contribution to RGDP at market prices of the Northern Cape. The
manufacturing industry decreased by 7,1 per cent and contributed 3,2 per
cent to the regional RGDP. The construction industry had the lowest
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contribution of 1,1 per cent to the RGDP. From the above it is evident that
there are sufficient economic opportunities within our Province that needs to
be pursued vigorously to continue the upward trend in the economic growth.
The contribution of our province to the country’s Gross Domestic Product
remains at just over 2 per cent. With regard to employment creation the
Premier announced during the State of the Province address that the
provincial government has exceeded its employment targets and created over
9,030 jobs last year. The provincial economy remains dependent on primary
sectors such Agriculture and Mining. To this end the growth, transformation
and diversification of the provincial economy as enshrined in the NCPGDS
remains central to our plan to grow and develop the provincial economy.
Although our economy continues to perform well, President Thabo Mbeki
correctly observed in his state of the nation address that the “success in the
growth of our economy should be measured not merely in terms of the returns
that accrue to investors or the job opportunities to those with skills. Rather it
should also manifest in the extent to which the marginalized in the wilderness
of the second economy are included and are at least afforded sustainable
livelihood”. It is for this reason that our government remains committed to a
programme of action to enhance higher rates of economic growth and
development, improve quality of life of all people, and consolidate our social
cohesion.
FISCAL DISCIPLINE
Madame speaker allow me to speak briefly about the issue of fiscal discipline.
It is an open secret that during the past financial year the province faced a
number of challenges relating to weak fiscal discipline in some areas. To this
end the Executive Council, under the strong guidance of the Honourable
Premier Ms. Dipuo Peters, instituted rigorous mechanisms including stringent
fiscal discipline and saving mechanisms to control expenditure and to ensure
more efficient utilisation of state resources. The measures we put in place as
well as improved implementation of in-year-monitoring system has greatly
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assisted us to address the situation. Today we are encouraged by the fact
that the overspending patterns in some quarters have been arrested since our
projections derived from the in-year-monitoring and reporting system indicates
that we are more than likely to break even for the 2004/2005 financial year.
However, our efforts to ensure sound fiscal practice and discipline as well as
more efficient management of state resources continues. The challenges
facing our province with regard to poverty and unemployment as well as
limited state resources, obliges us not to tolerate unauthorized, irregular,
fruitless and wasteful expenditure. We have a collective responsibility to
ensure that we continue with efforts aimed at improving the management of
our finances.
Lack of requisite skills in financial management has been one of the main
factors contributing to poor financial management. It is for this reason that our
government remains committed to building capacity amongst financial
managers. As part of our plan to ensure sound financial management, we
have resolved that during the first year of the MTEF we will assist provincial
departments and provincial public entities in building their capacity for
efficient, effective and transparent financial management.
Madame Speaker, members will remember that 98 per cent of our provincial
finances come from the equitable share. This means that our revenue base is
very limited. In order to increase our financial resources we would be looking
at ways through which the provincial revenue could be expanded and to
ensure effective collection of provincial taxes. Currently, municipalities are
collecting provincial taxes for the province. This situation has sometimes led
to delays and lack of policy development in the area of provincial revenue.
The need to bring about more effective integration, co-ordination and
alignment of activities of government so as to improve the development
impact of government programmes remains critical. To this end our provincial
growth and development strategy seeks to establish a link between policy,
high-level provincial strategies, departmental strategic plans and budgets. As
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government we will continue to ensure that our funding and spending patterns
are related to the objectives that we have set in particular the fight against
poverty and unemployment.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Madame Speaker,
The role of our local sphere of government in addressing the challenges
facing our province remains critical. The point of departure of our government
is that local government must ensure that all communities have access to
basic services, that everyone can participate in planning and decisionmaking,
that the local economy grows, that job opportunities increase, and
that local resources are used wisely to improve the quality of life for everyone,
now and in the future. Hence we talk of a developmental local government.
In order to ensure that we maximise utilisation of our resources in the fight
against poverty and unemployment, co-ordination of intergovernmental
planning across the three spheres of government is of critical importance. It is
for this reason that our provincial growth and development strategy is
premised amongst other things, on the promotion of the optimal utilisation of
existing physical, human and financial resources and the integration of
spatially coherent regional and local economic development and improved
service delivery systems. The total envelope of resources that is spent by
both local and provincial government amounts to just over R7 billion. In the
period ahead the optimal utilisation of these financial resources to grow the
economy will be of utmost importance.
INFRASTRUCTURE
One of the areas that will receive concerted attention during the MTEF period
will be the Improvement of Infrastructure Delivery Process. The infrastructure
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review report commissioned by government concludes that the infrastructure
delivery process is not fully integrated both vertically and horizontally that the
management of infrastructure delivery process is not well coordinated and
fully reported, that the operating environment supporting delivery process is
deficient and that there is a lack of understanding of the complete delivery
process and the impact of supporting operating environment. The review
report further recommends amongst other things that:-
?? Implementation plans must be developed for improving the efficiency of
infrastructure spending;
?? All stakeholders in the Delivery Process, including those appointed and
elected must be committed to the infrastructure Delivery Process;
?? The roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders in the delivery process
must be drafted, agreed to and documented in the terms of reference
document;
?? Service level agreements must be drafted where they do not exist and
be agreed upon; and
?? Management competency and capacity must be reviewed and
measured quantitatively and must be improved if it is found to be
inadequate for the management and integration of the complex
Infrastructure Delivery Process.
Given the potential job creation capability that infrastructure delivery can
create and the social impact it can create, special attention will be given to
infrastructure delivery to ensure that infrastructure allocations are spent
correctly and the intended output is delivered. If not correctly implemented,
the province will be faced with the possibility of losing infrastructure grants to
provinces that have the capacity to deliver infrastructure.
Madame speaker provision of adequate infrastructure for economic growth
and development is key to our provincial growth and development strategy.
We have set ourselves a target of achieving this by 2014. Almost three weeks
ago the Honourable Premier announced a number of major projects
pertaining to infrastructure development. To this end, the infrastructure
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allocation has increased from R190, 5 million in the financial year 2004/2005
to R232, 5 million in this financial year. This means that we need to put in
place systems aimed at ensuring that our infrastructure funding is utilised
effectively and efficiently.
In order to ensure efficient utilisation of infrastructure funding and to prevent
losing infrastructure grants to other provinces we are going to make use of the
Infrastructure Development Improvement Toolkit. The Toolkit will assist us to
trace spending progress in approved projects. This will further help us to
make necessary interventions including channelling of funds to departments
that are spending better in case where a particular department is slow in
spending. It is important that departments must shift their thinking in line with
new developments and, in this regard, greater emphasis should be placed in
the planning of projects. In the main the manner in which we plan for projects
needs to be overhauled. It is critical that in the planning phase appropriate
timeframes should be set to ensure that allocated funds are spent within the
funding timelines.
BUDGET 2005/2006
Madam Speaker, the budget we present today represents outcomes of a
transparent and participatory budget process. Underlying it is our commitment
to fight poverty and unemployment. The Minister of Finance noted during the
budget speech that over the past decade government has made steady
progress in raising the proportion of spending on social services that goes to
the poorest 40 per cent of our people. It is for this reason that the major
proportion of the provincial budget is spent on social services. In particular the
overwhelming majority of our budget is spent on education, social services,
and health.
We noted earlier that the biggest portion, which represents 98% of our
provincial funding, is derived from nationally collected revenue of which 62,2%
is equitable share while the remainder of 37,8% is in the form of conditional
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grants. As citizens of the Province we only contribute 2% of provincial own
revenue and I believe we can do better.
Provincial Receipts
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40%
60%
80%
100%
2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
MTEF
% Share
Own
Revenue
National
Transfers
Our equitable share as a proportion of nationally collected revenue is
declining from 62,2% in 2005/06 to 60% in 2006/07 and even declines further
in 2007/08 to 58% while conditional grants moves in the opposite direction to
that of the equitable share. Conditional grants increase from 37,8% in 2005/06
to 40 % in 2006/07 and 42% in 2007/08.
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Proportional Comparative
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2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
MTEF
% Share
Conditional
Grants
Equitable
Share
Madam Speaker, the question that needs to be asked is whether the decline
in the equitable share as a proportion of nationally collected revenue will
continue despite moderate increases in equitable share. One of the solutions
lies in our ability to become more productive and increase our contribution to
the National Gross Domestic Product and to increase our contribution to
provincially collected revenue. The answer to the first question is more difficult
than the latter but is achievable.
During the period under review we will be growing the revenue base to
facilitate possible expansion of an envelope of public services to citizens. Last
year, approximately this time we presented a different picture of the
composition of our funding. When we tabled the budget, equitable share as
proportion of total funding was 84,5% for 2005/06 and 83,2% for 2006/07 and
83,8% in 2007/08.
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2004 MTEF Comparison
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2004/05 2005/06 2006/07
2004 MTEF
% Share
Conditional
Grants
Equitable
Share
These drastic changes are the result of changes in population; our population
is declining in numbers in terms of 2001 census, which affected the weighting
in the equitable share formula because the equitable share formula is to a
larger extent population driven. The second factor that brought about these
differences is the transfer of social assistance grants from the provinces to
national government. Until the end of the current financial year, social
assistance grants were financed from equitable share and was left to the
discretion of the provinces. The intended consolidation of social grants
administration in a single national Agency reporting to the Minster of Social
Development has resulted into significant changes to the budget framework.
Social grants and associated administrative expenditure are now fully
budgeted for on the national department of Social Development Vote as
conditional grants to Provinces. These funds will be ring fenced and
separately managed by provinces as an interim step towards establishing the
new Social Security Agency, the transfer of social assistance grants from the
Province to National Government has resulted into 24% of the provincial
equitable share being transferred to national government. The phasing in of
the new equitable share formula has also brought about downward revision of
our equitable share. Madam Speaker, it is therefore clear that the allocations
to our spending agencies had to be revised downward due to reasons
explained earlier.
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Comparative MTEF's
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2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
Years
Rand in Billions
2005 MTEF
2004 MTEF
Our equitable share from nationally collected revenue amounts to R3, 124
billion in 2005/06 and increases to R3, 227 billion in 2006/07 or an increase of
6,5% and will in the outer year of the medium term expenditure framework
increase to R3, 492 billion or 5% increase compared to 2006/07. Conditional
grants will amount to Rl, 899 billion and increase to R2, 514 billion in the outer
year of the MTEF. Provincial own revenue is estimated at R105 million in
2005/06, R110 million in 2006/07 and R117 million in 2007/08 fiscal year.
Total envelope of resources available to the province is estimated at R5, 128
billion in 2005/06, R5, 683 billion in 2006/07 and R6, 123 billion in 2007/08.
The social services sector, which includes education, health and social
development accounts for 77,6 percent of the total provincial budget, debt
redemption allocation takes 1,6 percent while the remaining 20,8 percent is
allocated to non-social departments including the legislature. This
demonstrates our government’s commitment to a pro-poor agenda.
Compensation of employees accounts for 43 per cent of the total budget. This
means that the Northern Cape spends the lowest on personnel expenditure
nationally. Furthermore it allows us to channel more resources towards
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poverty eradication programmes. Transfer payments account for 32,7% or R1,
674 billion in 2005/06. Capital expenditure increases by 62% to R280, 8
million in 2005/06 which also represents an increase on our infrastructure
funding. This is necessitated by the need for capital expenditure as a way of
growing the economy. Goods and services account for R967, 9 million in
2005/06. This will give further stimulus to local economic development.
2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
Economic Classification R'000 % R'000 % R'000 %
Compensation of Employees 2,204,603 42.99 2,324,705 40.91 2,456,541 40.12
Transfers & Subsidies 1,674,364 32.65 1,819,980 32.03 1,970,280 32.18
Goods & Services 967,936 18.88 1,083,128 19.06 1,149,797 18.78
Payments for Capital Assets 280,793 5.48 454,709 8.00 546,366 8.92
Total Payments 5,127,696 100.00 5,682,522 100.00 6,122,984 100.00
Madam Speaker,
Let me take this opportunity to unpack the specific proposals for the financial
year 2005/2006. Individual departmental allocations can be found in the
attached annexures.
GOVERNANCE
Madame Speaker,
As we forge ahead with our fight against poverty and unemployment, policy
co-ordination to ensure integrated and coherent regional and local economic
development becomes critical. The Office of the Premier plays a critical role in
ensuring good governance in the province. In recognition of the important role
played by this office an additional increase of R15 million has been provided
for in this financial year.
Central to our belief in good governance is the oversight role of our legislature
and its role in facilitating a people centred democracy by ensuring that people
continue to participate in the legislative process. This means that we must
continue to create an environment for the legislature to play its oversight role
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effectively. In this regard the Legislature received additional R12 million to
correct the base line budget. The total allocation to the Premier’s Office and
the Legislature accounts for about 3 per cent of the total budget.
ECONOMIC SERVICES
The Premier announced during her State of the Province address that the
Innovation Fund would be used over the next three years to systematically
unlock development funding for creative and innovative economic
development initiatives. In this regard, an additional R15 million has been
allocated to top up the Innovation fund.
Agriculture remains one of the key sectors with the potential to substantially
contribute to our objective of transforming the provincial economy. To this end
Agriculture and Land Reform baseline has been increased by R20 million to
enable the department to improve veterinary services, land care as well as
food security.
Transport, Roads and Works budget includes infrastructure grant of R106
million. This amount is for the expansion of our investment in road
infrastructure, which represents a shift in terms of growing the provincial
economy. This is further boosted by conditional grants of R69 million for the
Hospital Revitalisation Programme and R76 million for Tertiary Services. Both
these conditional grants are located within the Health Vote.
The Premier announced almost three weeks ago that the Tourism Masterplan
would be completed by 1st May 2005. In order to facilitate this process and to
ensure that the province is well marketed as a destination of choice, the
budget allocated to Tourism, Environment and Conservation has been
increased to augment and establish the department as a result of functions
that have been shifted from departments of Economic Affairs and Agriculture
and Land Reform. This shift of functions is grounded in our acknowledgement
as a province that sustainable development requires us to put systems in
place to ensure the protection of bio-diversity and the environment as well as
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to improve coastal management.
SOCIAL SERVICES
As alluded to by the Premier in her State of the Province address education
continues to remain a high priority of our government. This is demonstrated by
the fact that we have allocated over R1, 5 billion to education. This budget
makes provision for increasing salaries of our educators, scares skills
allowance for mathematics teacher at schools and performance based pay
progression system to replace the 1% adjustment each year.
Our government remains committed and focused in ensuring a healthy nation,
that people have access to health services and that communicable diseases
are prevented. To this end, the Department Health has been allocated an
amount just over R941 million. This includes the HIV/AIDS grant which
increases by an additional R40, 2 million over the MTEF period, and health
professional training and development grant which increases by R6, 7 million
over the current allocations. This will also allow us to attract medical
personnel with requisite skills to assist in dealing with the challenges of
providing health services to the people of the Northern Cape.
The Department of Social Services will receive an amount of R1, 2 billion as
conditional grant for Social Assistance grants to further enhance our ability to
ensure that we create a safety net for the poorest of the poor. Social Services
will be monitored in terms of conditions set in the Division of Revenue Act and
will focus on the grant integration process, service delivery quality, business
planning and financial management, fraud minimization, beneficiary payment
processes and efficient management of service providers. This grants
allocations to Social Development are based on certain beneficiary growth
assumptions and increases to grant values.
Madame Speaker, we need to ensure that we develop ways and means to
ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to allow our province to
participate in the World Cup 2010 processes. To this end, the Department of
Sports, Arts and Culture will receive a total allocation of R55 million which is
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inclusive of R2, 6 million for a mass sport and recreation programme.
Baseline allocation for the department of Finance has been increased to
provide for capacity building to enable the department to render proper
support and leadership in financial management to line function departments.
An amount of R68 million is voted for the department of Finance in this
financial year.
Law Enforcement integration and co-ordination is a priority for our
government. It is for this reason that the department of Safety and Liaison’s
budget takes into account the transfer of law enforcement function from the
department of Public Works Roads and Transport including start up costs to
set up the law enforcement unit. To this end, the overall of R51, 2 million
budget allocation for this department includes an amount of R1, 7 million that
has been set aside for the law enforcement function.
For the Department of Housing and Local Government an amount of R209
million is voted for the financial year 2005/2006. This amount includes
conditional grants for Housing Subsidies and Provincial Infrastructure.
CONCLUSION
Madam Speaker,
In the last decade of democracy we have put in place policies that enhance
revenue collection, fiscal discipline, debt reduction and efficient utilisation of
scarce resources. In the decade ahead we need to entrench and
institutionalise the implementation of these policies. Emanating from these
policies is the tools of planning which includes, amongst other things,
improvement of quality for better service delivery and development, linking our
planning with the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, harmonisation of
planning in the three spheres of government through drawing linkages
between the National Spatial Development Plan, Provincial Growth and
Development Strategy and the Integrated Development Plans of local
government.
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Another important development in our legislative framework is the new
approach to supply chain management. In this regard the Preferential
Procurement Policy Framework Act was designed to overhaul the way assets
are managed and accounted for within the public sector. The new approach
requires us to ensure that Preferential Procurement is used as an effective
instrument to promote Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment and
Small Medium and Micro Enterprises. An effective utilisation of these tools will
contribute significantly to the transformation, growth and development of our
economy.
The ultimate end of a budget in the current legislative framework, is the
tabling of annual reports indicating how the allocated funds, where utilised.
The annual reports tell us what goods and services were purchased with the
taxpayers money and the constitution requires that transactions entered into
must be audited to ensure efficiency and effectiveness and that value for
money was received.
The audit outcomes of 2003/04 financial year leaves much to be desired. We
have fared badly in most instances with provincial treasury leading the pack of
disclaimers. This is not the standard by which we would like to be measured.
Let me remind the house that the aim of the Public Finance Management Act
is to modernize financial management in the public sector, and, in the process
reduce fraud, corruption and wasteful expenditure. More effective and
efficient use of public resource will maximize the capacity of Government to
deliver services. The Public Finance Management Act enables accounting
officers to manage, but at the same time, holds them accountable for the
resources they use. It establishes clear lines of accountability and broad
frameworks of best practice that managers can adopt, or where necessary,
adapt. The Act is not intended to make managers so cautious that they fail to
deliver the outputs agreed to in their strategic plans for fear of contravening
Public Finance Management Act. Any accounting officer underspending or
overspending against their respective departments vote will be transgressing
the Act and be open to the sanctions as specified in the Act.
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Madame Speaker allow me to express my sincerest gratitude and
appreciation to:
?? The Premier for her leadership and Guidance;
?? Colleagues in the Executive Council for their Cooperation and
commitment;
?? Members of the Provincial Legislature;
?? The National Minister and Deputy Minister of Finance, The National
Treasury and members of the Budget Council for their co-operative
style in dealing with the budget process, as well as the members of the
Financial and Fiscal Commission;
?? The various Accounting Officers and their staff for the co-operation and
commitment to sound financial management; and finally
?? The officials of the Provincial Treasury and the Ministry who laboured
tirelessly to ensure that the budget is tabled correctly.
Madame Speaker. It is with pleasure that I table:
?? The Northern Cape Appropriation Bill 2005
?? The Budget Statement for the 2005/2006, MTEF including the two
outer years which takes into account Estimates of Revenue and
Expenditure.
I thank you!
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Annexure A
MTEF BASELINE ALLOCATION 2005/06 - 2007/08
2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
Department Allocation % Allocation % Allocation %
Office of the Premier 86,845 1.69 92,347 1.63 87,997 1.44
Legislature 53,165 1.04 58,919 1.04 57,666 0.94
Law Enforcement, Safety and Liaison 51,237 1.00 57,496 1.01 57,421 0.94
Education 1,533,960 29.92 1,605,756 28.26 1,700,371 27.77
Transport, Roads & Works 310,544 6.06 361,453 6.36 434,200 7.09
Economic Affairs 66,500 1.30 66,971 1.18 69,643 1.14
Sports, Arts & Culture 55,314 1.08 58,229 1.02 62,115 1.01
Finance 68,167 1.33 80,101 1.41 81,017 1.32
Housing & Local Government 208,997 4.08 229,295 4.04 255,881 4.18
Health 942,069 18.37 1,161,231 20.44 1,240,568 20.26
Social Services & Population Development 1,504,858 29.35 1,649,187 29.02 1,782,390 29.11
Agriculture and Land Reform 116,123 2.26 124,025 2.18 140,595 2.30
Toursim, Environment & Conservation 49,917 0.97 52,512 0.92 58,030 0.95
Total Allocation to Departments 5,047,696 98.44 5,597,522 98.50 6,027,894 98.45
Debt Redemption 80,000 1.56 85,000 1.50 95,000 1.55
Total Funding Available 5,127,696 100.00 5,682,522 100.00 6,122,894 100.00