Deputy Speaker, the ANC has noted with concern the Auditor-General's report on the millions of rand in irregular expenditure, missing assets and underspending in Premier Helen Zille's office and the Western Cape provincial legislature. The Western Cape provincial legislature underspent by R10 million under its administration section, while the Office of the Premier cannot locate R3,7 million's worth of assets listed in its asset register. [Interjections.]
Furthermore, an amount of R22,8 million was irregularly spent, and there were also several lawsuits about alleged unfair labour practices. The DA is quick to point fingers at the ANC government, and opportunistic sound bites are produced to cast themselves as the sole purveyors of justice and good governance. But when they are entrusted to oversee just one province, then this is the grim picture which emerges. [Interjections.]
The DA opportunistically accuses government departments and entities of incompetence in the filling of existing vacancies, but the increase in the vacancy rate in the Western Cape legislature depicts an employer which cannot retain its employees, nor fill funded vacant posts. The DA cannot govern the one province it endlessly lays claim to, but wants South Africa to entrust it to rule the country. [Time expired.]