I hope I will have protection regarding my time, because it is certainly not parliamentary to exhort people to "tshisa, tshisa".
Where we encounter good delivery, we must recognise it. The President of this country was affronted by the fact that DA-led administrations had won national awards. We must not shy away from ...
... into entle intle; into embi imbi. [... acknowledging good delivery and condemning the lack of it.] [Applause.]
Finally, this department has stated its commitment to improving efficiency and eliminating wastage. However, the actual work of this department is duplicating what line-function departments should be doing and if there were proper oversight of each and every line-function department, in all three spheres of government, your department would be redundant. So, far from streamlining the process of delivery, you are in effect adding an additional, unaffordable bureaucratic layer.
This is combined with the fact that you continue to grow the funding for the NYDA, without any tangible or visible outcomes with regard to the state of the unemployed youth of our country, and with the fact that there are at least four other government units established to reduce the level of corruption. This all speaks of spending without the necessary integrity and desired outcomes.
What, for example, are the roles of the Anticorruption Interministerial Committee, the Anticorruption Group, the Anticorruption Unit and the Multiagency Working Group, if your department is a fully functional unit that assesses outcomes according to budget? I will tell you - despite all of these so-called corruption busting units and your own department's lofty ideals ... imali isehla ngemilenze. [... corruption is still rife.]
Corruption continues to make poor people poorer.
Mr Sogoni talked about a developmental state. He said that developmental state-orientated budgetary processes improve the lives of the poor. I want to give you two examples that illustrate just how poor management and poor implementation impact on mitigating development and improving poor people's lives.
The first one is the Expanded Public Works Programme, EPWP, that is supposed to create jobs and is run by the Department of Public Works. They spent only 59% of the EPWP budget during the last financial year. Secondly, let me mention just one project in the Department of Health. They had to pay R254 million in interest for a late payment to a supplier of a hospital in Soweto. This kind of management and lack of monitoring and evaluation will keep poor people poorer.
In conclusion, let me say that despite the Minister's honouring our party with the very important acronym for delivery agreement, the DA cannot support this Budget Vote because we see no value in your department today. Thank you. [Applause.]