1. Thank you HON. Chairperson, for the dedication in steering departments to change their status quo of reporting investigations by improving the way they do things.
2. HON. Chairperson the internal audit unit should be tasked to prepare such a tabulated report on the 4 distribution requirements. The fifth item required is quantification of losses or retrievals of completed cases and total cost of loss of closed cases.
3. Now, we will be seeing stronger strategy implementation but HON. Members of SCOPA. In light of the resolutions, HON Members on tracking, the Minority Front suggests that we follow the route of the PPP Committee where petitions are tracked on an ongoing manner into 2 sections completed and ongoing sections.
4. Similarly, in SCOPA we should have an annual documented paralled report by SCOPA and Finance on resolutions per department but with an easy to read table of carried forward reports to the next year. This will ensure that officials take these resolutions seriously and prevent departments from becoming vulnerable to various watchdogs and litigants. More importantly, HON. Chairperson the resolutions taken from now on should take route of radical economic transformation and this means a progressive structural change in fundamental features of our departments, if we are to provide goods and services to grow our economy.
5. Our resolutions should also be weary of “grand theories” through and should be realistic. For this I suggested read Ruchir Sharma’s (2016), Rise and Fall of Nations and Francis Fukuyama – Political Order and Political Decay to tread a fine line on our road to Denmark because, Fukuyama argues that modern and successful polities have a balance of institutions: the state executive bureaucracy, the rule of law and systems of democratic accountability. However, all these systems, he argues and subject to decay and corruption and therefore HON. Members our institutions will require constant and vigilant renewal.
6. Thank You

Shameen Thakur- Rajbansi

Minority Front  MPL KZN Legislature