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He is \u201cworking tirelessly to position the province as a favourable investment to enhance economic growth and development\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So said Dr Zamani Saul, Northern Cape premier, in his penultimate budget speech in the legislature earlier in June during which he repeated his vision to build a modern, growing, and successful province. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The DA, however, has voted against the budget saying \u201cthe province is meant to be moving towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), but we are moving back to the Dark Ages. Deterioration is rife. Potholes are getting bigger, crime is out of control, towns are getting filthier, and the scavenging in garbage bags for scraps overwhelming.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Saul said the executive council and the office of the premier must play a coordinating and overseeing role, and provide strategic leadership to advance provincial growth and development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Namakwa Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Aggeneys had received investments of more than R29 billion for phase one. Pravin Gordhan, minister of Public Enterprises, and Transnet will announce the implementation of the Boegoebaai Harbour with an investment of more than R13 billion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Northern Cape Deep Port and Rail Infrastructure Project will enhance the country\u2019s maritime capabilities and contribute significantly to economic growth, international trade, and infrastructure development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saul said they intend to send ten young people to Vietnam to take up Maritime studies. The development of a feasibility study by Sasol on the development of green hydrogen production in Boegoebaai, a multi-billion rand project, is near completion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The office of the premier is constituted to manage administration, institutional development, policy, and governance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThrough Operation Clean Audit, led by the director-general, we remain committed to improve the provincial departments and municipal audit outcomes. To root out corruption and strengthen financial accountability, we recently concluded a service level agreement with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to conduct lifestyle audits in the provincial administration, starting in July.\u201d<\/div>\n
Dr. Zamani Saul<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe allocated R210 million to enhance 2 480 young people\u2019s skills and agreements with different Section Education and Training Authorities (SETA\u2019s) have been concluded. It entails training learners in electrical and welding; technical schools receiving equipment; 700 young people being trained in renewable energy; 950 young people trained in solar installation; 5 300 beneficiaries trained to become qualified artisans; 10 people funded for clinical engineering studies, and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last week Dr. Zamani Saul, premier of the Northern Cape, paid a visit to Kimberley artist Andrea Chounyane who has a vision of teaching young children how to express themselves through the arts. Saul committed to assisting Chounyane to further her studies and realise her dream.<\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Northern Cape Provincial Governmen<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Grantham Steenkamp , DA-MPL, at first complimented the premier in the budget debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe premier absorbed the Premier\u2019s Bursary Trust Fund into his office, merged the Department of Environment with Agriculture, established the state-owned construction company and a new ministry, put together the Boegoebaai Port and the SEZ projects, and supports the Hungry Lions Football Club. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut, the premier must spend less time on the football stands and more at desks at the Department of Education, the casualty area at Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital, and at the Sol Plaatje Municipality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDespite Operation Clean Audit, we saw an alarming regression in municipal audit outcomes for the 2021-\u201922 financial year. Some provincial departments continue to slide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cLast year in his budget speech, the premier promised vacant HOD posts will be filled, but then an acting HOD of Health, who is facing criminal charges relating to his tenure, was appointed.<\/div>\n
Grantham Steenkamp<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere is the promised transparency, accountability, and ethics now? Corruption and maladministration cannot rob the people of much-deserved services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the premier explained the vision of a modern, growing, and successful province, he described it as caring for the vulnerable and giving households access to the grid, water, and adequate sanitation. All that is growing are the sewage lakes encircling Kimberley. The province also received damning findings in the Blue and Green Drop Watch interim reports for 2023, which warrant an urgent provincial response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says the Sol Plaatje Municipality is yet to implement its water shutdown to do critical repairs, violating the grant conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe R2 billion Water Services Infrastructure Grant now hangs in the balance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMunicipalities owe Eskom a whopping R3,9 billion. While we are meant to be moving towards the 4IR, we are instead moving back to the Dark Ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlarm bells are ringing about the substantial discretionary budgetary increases across several departments. Does this relate the elections and the ANC\u2019s not-so-good financial state?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DA is also concerned about the premier\u2019s move from a state-owned property to a privately owned property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a blatant contradiction of the premier\u2019s own promises of cost-cutting measures. Residents already had to pay the price for one Trifecta (where government paid inflated rental prices for office space to the Trifecta company). We call on the premier to be honest about the reasons for the move and justify the costs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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