Chairperson, hon Minister, hon Deputy Ministers present, hon members of the House, I am a deployee of the ANC. The reason for me to speak today is to support this budget, so I do support this Budget Vote. I want to tell the hon director-general that I am looking at the money of the state. I am not interested in the party affiliation of the person. Everybody, whether you are DA or ANC, must account. That is what I would like to see.
According to section 55 and 114 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Members of Parliament are expected to hold all state organs to account. We expect your department to assist us by conducting its business in line with the Constitution, the Public Finance Management Act, PFMA, and all the laws governing intelligence and secret services in our land. The PFMA allows you to manage it, but it also holds you to account. We expect timeous reporting. We expect to receive quarterly reports on time. Late preparation of financial statements is not helpful; it is a waste of time. Financial statements are management tools. Financial statements prepared on time assist you, hon director-general, to manage your department properly.
The committee will track the spending of these resources that we are passing today. We are going to expect you to live up to your undertaking yesterday at Africa House. We are giving you this budget, because we became convinced that you have got a strategic plan and that you are going to deploy the resources in accordance with that strategic plan and in compliance with all the financial management laws of our country.
It is necessary that you make sure that the chief financial officer is a person who understands finances and is qualified to do the work. It is important that the chief financial officer insures that internal controls are in place; that risk management plans are in place and that supply chain management and procurement strategies are as prescribed by the PFMA and all intelligence laws of our country. We pass this budget, director-general, believing that you will carefully go through all previous years' committee recommendations, Auditor-General's findings and recommendations, and that you will correct and insure that there is no recurrence of those mistakes.
We believe that you will co-operate with the Auditor-General and give all required information to allow the auditing of your financial statements, and that we will get quarterly reports on time for us to do our oversight work. Stick to the legislation; those are the tools for accountability. Do not govern the country using newspaper reports, because they may not be accurate.
I remember very well, towards the World Cup, the many commentators and newspaper reports saying stadiums would not be built, and there would be no security. But the security intelligence community kept their word and they delivered. The world came and saw the loveliness of South Africa, and that is why tourism today is blossoming in South Africa. Well done, intelligence community.
We come from a past where security police were used to terrorise the peoples of South Africa. We come from a past where newspapers never used to report. Those that did were banned. Journalists were thrown out of windows, sent into exile, and all that. [Interjections.] We come from that past, but today we have got an intelligence service that truly protects the people of South Africa. What we want, however, is that the monies of the state must be used in accordance with predetermined objectives, which we have gone through. I would like to speak to the hon Koornhof. I do not know whether you want to be a member of the ANC, or not. You are so interested in Mangaung. Mangaung belongs to me, to the branches of the ANC. [Interjections.] You will not be there. I will be there. We are going to vote Jacob Zuma back into office. I thank you.