Honourable Deputy Speaker
Honourable Premier Honourable
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I am pleased to present the 2017/18 Budget Vote for the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature.
The Legislature Budget Vote is informed by our Annual Performance Plan guided by, amongst others, the adopted Strategic Plan 2015-2020; the National Development Plan; and the Medium Term Strategic Framework.
As the 5th Legislature, we need to reposition ourselves better in order to successfully respond to the triple challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality, through intensive oversight, effective public participation and the intensive scrutiny into our law making process and identify and deal with the gaps in our current legislation, as a legislative sector.
This year marks the 20th year of the Constitution of the democratic South Africa; this is but one of the greatest achievements of our National Democratic Revolution towards building a desired national democratic system.
Our Constitution has been hailed as the most progressive in the world because of its human rights considerations and its unifying spirit.
Go banna le basadi ba bokgabane, re motlotlo go keteka le go lo rolela dihutshe tebang le maikarabelo ao loneng loa rwesitswe ago diragatsa phitlhelelo e ya molaotheo. Re itumelela gore e ne ele tiro e e boitshegang- mme ga loaka lwa ikgatolosa.
Naga e tla dula e ba lebogela maitlamo a bone, botlhale jwa bone le botswerere joo ba bo bontshitseng mo go tlogeleng letlotlo le. Rotlhe rea patelesega go gore re le sireletse le go le tshegetsa go ya goile. {English translation} We proudly celebrate and salute the men and women who were charged with the responsibility of putting this hallmark together.
We appreciate that it was a mammoth task and the country will forever be indebted to their commitment, wisdom and diligence which incarnates nothing other than a prudent legacy that all of us across the breath and length of the country are duty bound to forever defend and uphold.
It is our constitutional imperative to ensure that the Legislature holds the Executive and Municipalities accountable in executing both the manifesto of the ruling party as well as the action plans of the National Development Plan (NDP).
In line with the NDP we are pursuing a development agenda under conditions of extreme poverty and widening inequality. The task of a developmental state is to create specific institutional structures, consciously articulate political purposes and to harness nationalism and a sense of national cohesion towards economic growth and development.
The achievement of the NDP goals rests on the effectiveness our strategy, one that is operationalised in order to conduct oversight, public participation and law-making. Full speech [PDF]
