I hereby present to the legislature of the Western Cape my 2011-12 general report summarising the results of the audit outcomes of provincial government for the financial year ended 31 March 2012.

At a point where, based on the previous year’s commitments, there was an expectation of significant improvement overall towards clean administration, these outcomes show significant progress only for entities and some improvement for departments.

My message for the 2010-11 financial period confirmed the leadership’s pledge – that the basic principles of monthly reporting, validation of reported information by internal audit units and audit committees, and constant monitoring will be the pillars on which the commitments for the coming year need to be based.

This informed the new commitments that ranged from enhancing the monitoring and oversight capacity of the legislature and its committees, the development and support of entity-specific action plans to address financial and performance management, and the provincial treasury capitalising on the Financial Management Improvement Plan initiative to monitor the quality of departments’ action plans and their implementation.

To give effect to these commitments, officials will need to be monitored to ensure that they perform their responsibilities in line with their job requirements.

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