It is not enough to recommend that the Minister in the Presidency must talk to the Minister of Finance. The same recommendations which we made previously are still here and are not supported by the ruling party.
It is not acceptable that Statistics SA had to cancel an important study on femicide because there is no budget but we find that there is budget allocation for useless departments like monitoring and evaluation.
A study on poverty in South Africa has been reduced to a simple pamphlet because Statistics SA is not funded. We are saying, reduce the bloated Cabinet. Don't say to us that you have reduced the Cabinet but you have increased the Deputy Ministers. We are still saying, reduce the bloated Cabinet. Take the budget that you've allocated to monitoring and evaluation department because it is useless; give it to Statistics SA to fund important programmes. The EFF supports this.