Departments are at risk of not achieving their infrastructure and service delivery targets because of the reining in of the budgets, according to DPME.
The department of planning, monitoring and evaluation is lamenting the hopeless state of some municipalities, calling them dysfunctional.The department of planning, monitoring and evaluation is concerned about National Treasury’s directive to cut spending and says the cuts should depend on the circumstances in individual departments and not across the board.
Director-general at DPME Robert Nkuna wants National Treasury to go back to the drawing board on how to claw back on spending. We prefer to go issue by issue, department by department and programme by programme because the issues are not always the same. So, we are looking forward to engaging with National Treasury on this.
“Public works has not been able to build schools and has now taken over that responsibility when it is not their core function. They’ve had to set up systems to monitor contracts, which is not what they are talented in. We’ve been trying to encourage them to focus more on ensuring that they have contract management skills so that their monitoring becomes much more effective,” said Dr Thabo Mabogoane, from DPME.
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