The North West Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Provincial Affairs and Finance has found that there is no monitoring and evaluation of overall projects in the province.
This was said after the committee embarked on oversight visits to various infrastructure projects that are in line with estimates of Provincial Revenue and Expenditure for 2013/14 financial year at Bojanala District Municipality on the 29th – 30th May 2013.
The visits began at Molatedi Clinic, a clinic that operates from 08h00 to 16h00 servicing the Molatedi village. In this clinic, the Committee discovered that there is no infrastructure and that the clinic does not appear in the Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the Department of Health for this financial year for renovations and upgrades.
At Mabiskraal Health Centre, the Committee found a lot of patients in the waiting room complaining of poor service. When management of the clinic was engaged about this, they alluded this to the shortage of staff the clinic is experiencing.
There was no water, since the clinic’s bore hole stopped working four days back; the maternity waiting room was not fully equipped and therefore it was not functional; although this is a new building completed only in August 2008, it had cracks all over and there is no equipment, no pharmacist on site whereas it caters for an influx of patients from Derdepoort, Molatedi and other clinics in the surrounding villages.
On the Boshoek and Tlokweng road, the Committee found the contractor on site. The road will be servicing residents of Boshoek and Silverkraans. Out of the R33 million contract, R3.7 million will go to labourers and sub-contractors and 43 people from both villages have been hired. The road is scheduled to be completed by October 2013.
Tlokweng Library construction was set to be completed in August 2012 but the project has stalled as the contractor was last seen on site in December 2012. Chairperson of the Committee, Hon. Wendy Matsemela said it is clear that the monitoring and evaluation committee in the Office of the Premier is not doing its work.
“We do not have people who are doing the overall monitoring of projects in the province. The Department of Finance on the other side allocates funds and it does not check whether the funds are used for that specific objective, which is service delivery in this case.
“The roll over for infrastructure grant has already been done for the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture and the Public Finance Management Act will not allow them to do a roll over again, what will happen to the Tlokweng Library now,” said Honourable Matsemela.
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