The Office of the Premier focused on unauthorised expenditure, lack of communication between the Province and Administration team and ensuring that sustainable capacity was built in the Province. During the April 2013 visit, the Office of the Premier indicated that the Province is fully committed to the intervention. The Premier reported that constructive progress had been made and acknowledged that there are challenges. The Director General (DG) of the Province reported progress achieved as follows: . The appointment of the HOD of the Provincial Treasury and reorganisation of the Department to enable it to provide support to provincial departments and municipalities on the implementation of the PFMA and Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA); . Additional capacity had been built in the offices of the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in the departments of Education, Health and Provincial Treasury; . Administrators have built sufficient capacity in their various departments, worked together with the HODs and have developed processes and systems, recovery plans and turnaround strategies; . The Province had reduced unauthorised expenditure by R1.3 billion i.e. from R2.7 billion in 2011. About R822 million had been funded from the Provincial Revenue Fund and the rest through various departmental budgets. The outstanding R1.5 billion expenditure would be financed over the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), of which R640 million would be addressed in the 2012/13 financial year; . A Human Resource Task Team had been established to ensure that the budget is available to fund posts. Compensation of employees was expected to account for 69 per cent of the total provincial expenditure in 2012/13; . The roll out of the LOGIS system to replace BAS in the Provincial Treasury, Health and Education had started. Roll out in other departments was expected to follow in a phased approach; . The Minister of Public Service and Administration (PSA) had developed draft legislation on Section 100 (1) (b) of the Constitution and had sent it to the Province for comments; and . There had been drastic improvement in communication between the intervention team and the Executive Council (EXCO). Bilateral meetings were held between the Office of the Premier, Provincial Treasury and the departments to address specific challenges. The Administrators attended the last EXCO meeting and those that could not attend, sent apologies.