COGTA ANNUAL REPORT 2020

Strategy to overcome areas of under performance • The Department will include a clause in the recruitment advertisement – stating “preference” for female candidates. TheDepartment will create awareness&access, and provide the available work opportunities to people with disabilities. Advertise positions in organisations which specialise in recruiting for people with disabilities. •

following reasons. The Department was allocated the former Office of the Premier building for office accommodation. The said building was availed for occupation on or before the end of July 2019, however due to compliance issues, the Department could not occupy; as a result, R4 000 000 could not be spent on office partitioning, and about R500 000 budgeted for cleaning and maintenance could not be spent as planned. Moreover, legal costs were estimated based on previous and periodic events, which most did not materialize. The result was that an amount of R1 000 000 was saved on legal expenses. The Department did not pay any bonuses, progression increases, or similar benefits to senior managers, this and few vacancies resulted in under expenditure of R7 000 000. These significant savings and other minor savings like traveling, stationery, bursaries, and accommodation resulted in a total savings of R16 000 000 reflected above. This, under expenditure, did not affect the performance of the programme materially.

Changes to planned targets There were no changes to planned targets.

Linking performance with budgets The programme was allocated a total budget of R143 956 000, of which R127 934 000 was spent. This represents an average of 89% of the total budget allocated. The remaining 11% or R16 022 000 could not be spent primarily because of the

Sub-programme expenditure

Administration

2018/19

2019/20

Actual Expenditure

Actual Expenditure

Final Appropriation

(Over)/Under Expenditure

Final Appropriation

(Over)/Under Expenditure

Local Governance

R’000

R’000

R’000

R’000

R’000

R’000

Office of the MEC

3 354

3 053

301

4 387

3 698

689

Corporate Services

127 856

108 771

19 085

139 569

124 236

15 333

Total

131 210

111 824

19 386

143 956

127 934

16 022

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