a) The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation’s (DPME) communication activities on the 30 Year Review form part of the overall plan that is coordinated by the Government Communications and Information System (GCIS) on the 30-Years of Freedom and Democracy.

Specific planned activities are for the President to launch the 30 Year Review Report. The DPME will publish the report on the website in ...

The Government has translated the Capacity of the State into Priority One which binds all Government Department including National Treasury. All government department participate in the implementation of the NDP, in terms of the MTSF.

This priority addresses the social, economic and governance issues that cuts across all government that affects all of society. The NDP remains the country’s guide and serves to inform ...

(1) (a) The President and the Minister in The Presidency for Electricity, Dr K Ramokgopa signed a performance agreement on 31 July 2023 and (b) the performance agreement is until the end of the 2023/2024 financial year (31 March 2024);

(2) No. I will not furnish Ms S J Graham with a copy of the performance agreement; as it is an agreement is between ...

1.(a) It was subsequently concluded that there was no need for a formal investigation to be instituted in this regard as the measures in place to address the challenge are adequate. The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) has a Frontline Monitoring and Support (FMS) programme implemented across all provinces in a holistic manner, which is a key monitoring mechanism that provides government ...

(a) Brand SA does not have a campaign called Made in SA. However, in line with its mandate, Brand South Africa profiles and showcases South African talent, skills, people, product and services. The recent campaigns anchored under brand advocacy focused on the following pillars on;

1) creative arts: where Brand South Africa profiled a young entrepreneur from Eastern Cape who owns a brand called ...

a) The Minister did not attend the Rugby World Cup final.

b) The Deputy Minister attended the Rugby World Cup quarter-final which was sponsored and declared to the President. The trip was undertaken within the context of ongoing stakeholder management.

c) No other official in the Ministry attended the Rugby World Cup.

(i) No officials from her office attended Rugby World Cup.

(ii) No ...

1. Yes, the President signed performance agreements for the 2019/24 term with all the ministers starting in October/November 2020 and annual agreements for 2023/24 financial year during the month of June 2023.

The President regularly assesses the performance of the Ministers and he is responsible for consequence management at his discretion.

(2) (a) The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), developed a system ...

In keeping with the mandate of DPME, additional capacity is required to improve the country’s development planning system and implementation towards improving the country’s development outcomes. This includes modernising the planning system through improving capacity in areas of planning innovation, including macro-economic modelling, complex adaptive systems modelling, foresighting, scenario planning and futures thinking as well as using new technology such as Artificial Intelligence. Improving ...

1. The NDP provides a long-term perspective on the attainment of the democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous society anticipated in our Constitution and, as such, will remain our lodestar.

The NDP laid down a broad roadmap for South Africa to address and deal with the broad objectives of eliminating poverty, reducing unemployment, and reducing inequality by 2030. As these objectives, as identified in the ...

(a) The DPME did not perform any internal organisational restructuring to support the DDM but we did however allocate the support functions to existing posts. The reduction of the Compensation of Employees budget in the last few years due to re-prioritisation in 2019 and this financial year also did not provide scope to restructure the DPME.

(b) No additional costs were incurred as the ...