Motlatsatona wa lefapha la Pusoselegae le Merero Ya Magosi, jaaka o setse o tlhalositse gore mo nakong e e fetileng, lo file baruni dikwalo tsa lona go sale thari, ke batla go itse fa lefapha la gago le nale le badiri ba ba nang le bokgoni kgotsa dithutego tse di maleba tsa go ka kgontsha gore boruni ba fitlhe ka nako ko go Morunikakaretso? Ba be ba tsaya dikgato morago ga go boruni ba ga Morunikakaretso. Ka gore bontsi ba nako ga ba tseye dikgato, go nna fela jalo le fa morunikakaretso a dirile dikatlenegiso, galo tseye dikgato. Jaanong ke kopa go itse gore a ban ale dithutego tse di maleba motlotlegi. Ke a leboga
The DEPUTY MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: Hon Chairperson, I think with regard to the question of capacity, one should respond to the question in two ways. The first relate to the capacity in CWP, particularly when the programme was relocated to the department, lot of this capacity was built through the engagement of the Non-Profit Organizations, NPOs, that are
responsible for the implementation of the programme and our responsibility is to hold them to account to their performance.
One of the things that we raised with the department is that they need to ensure that we hold the NPOs to account in a much more stringent way and I can report that many of the NPOs have in fact found instances where we have either delayed payment and impose sanctions as a result of non compliance. We think that it is an important issue that we impose the necessary sanctions when there is non-compliance.
The second part of my response relates to the internal capacity from an audit point of view, and that internal capacity relates to the capacity that we have in the office of the Chief Financial Officer of the department. Now, when the CWP was relocated to Co-Operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, the department did not necessarily at the same time expand the capacity of the office Chief Financial Officer. So we are still utilising the same personnel to manage what is now a much larger programme than was initially there and that is an issue that is receiving our attention to ensure that we can deal with the limitations in now what would have been a much smaller programme having grown significantly in terms of size as a result of the inclusion of CWP.
With regard to corrective action, we do believe, and I indicated earlier, that corrective action has been taken against the NPOs that are responsible for the implementation of the programme to the extent that they are not complying according to our requirements and internally we do hold officials to account against the performance requirements of the officials in their department. Thank you very much.