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February 2015
News
G
overnment’s Management
Performance Assessment Tool
(MPAT) has scored theWestern
Cape the highest of all the South Afri-
can provinces on four key indicators:
Strategic Management; Governance
and accountability; Human resource
and systems management; and Fi-
nancial management. According to
Phumzile Van Damme, the Democrat-
ic Alliance National Spokesperson,
the DA will continue to unite South
Africans on the basis of good gover-
nance and service delivery.
Census 2011 shows that 99% of
households in theWestern Cape have
access to piped water, 93,4% have
access to electricity and 90,5% have
access to flush toilets. This is the high-
est access in the country.
Van Damme says, “President
Jacob Zuma will recall that, by the
time the ANC reached their final year
in government in the Western Cape,
not a single Department was able to
achieve a clean audit. Under the DA,
Best governed
province
Western Cape government depart-
ments and entities achieved 18 clean
audits and five unqualified audits.
This is a much better performance
than any other province and it dem-
onstrates that the DA is serious about
clean and effective governance.”
In total, 76%of the provincial bud-
get is spent in poorer communities,
with theWestern Cape also achieving
the highest proportion of households
receiving free basic services.
“Voters have endorsed this good
governance by strengthening the DA’s
electoral mandate in each election
since we took office. We accept that
these numbers sit uncomfortably
with the ANC, including the fact that
they are in a province where due
diligence needs to be followed in
securing a venue for their event.” She
concludes, “This is a province where
there are no favours and everyone
has to do everything by the book.”
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