Dying diggers of Namaqualand need saving
| by Adv Boitumelo Babuseng MPL – DA Provincial Spokesperson for Economic Development Error! Filename not specified.Date: 30 August 2019Release: Immediate Reports that the Northern Cape Liquor Board does not have enough moveable assets at their offices to allow for the execution of an attachment order are as worrying as the granting of the attachment order itself.This shambles is what happens when oversight bodies are not respected and when individuals are allowed to ignore recommendations or regulations.The Democratic Alliance (DA) therefore urges the Member of the Executive Council for Finance, Economic Development & Tourism, Maruping Lekwene, to allow no further delays with the rationalisation of provincial public entities and to ensure that the recommendations from the Public Protector following an investigation into the irregular appointment of the Liquor Board’s Chief Executive Officer should be followed.He may not be the one who is responsible for all the problems that the entity now struggles with, but he is going to be the one held responsible for resolving it.He is going to need a strong management team at his side and, for that, he is going to have to implement the recommendations which stem from the Public Protector’s investigation into the irregular appointments made at the entity.We know that the Northern Cape Department of Economic Development & Tourism still owes the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature a status report on progress made with rationalisation.During the recent discussions of the entities’ budgets for the 2019/20 financial year, indications were given that the rationalisation would be ready for implementation by December this year.While these commitments from the new MEC are welcome, it has to be remembered that the progress already started in 2015. Almost five years later, it seems that the only real work which was done towards rationalisation was for the department to pay R500 000 for the chairperson of NCEDA to copy and paste a report from the Free State.In the meantime, morale at the entity is at an all-time low as employees struggle with daily uncertainty about their future careers. They do not know if they will have work tomorrow, none of the critical posts can be filled, and so the remaining employees are, quite frankly, mostly overburdened.You could not run a shebeen like this, let alone a professional entity. Media Enquiries Adv Boitumelo Babuseng MPLDA Provincial Spokesperson for Economic Development082 302 2117 Tharina WhittakerResearcher071 251 5558 |
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