{"id":455434,"date":"2020-12-08T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=455434"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T11:48:51","slug":"ramaphosas-ministers-sign-performance-contracts-promising-to-create-jobs-and-stop-wasteful-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/455434\/ramaphosas-ministers-sign-performance-contracts-promising-to-create-jobs-and-stop-wasteful-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa&#8217;s ministers sign &#8216;performance contracts&#8217; &#8211; promising to create jobs and stop wasteful spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As announced in his state of the nation address on 13 February, president Cyril Ramaphosa has signed performance agreements with all of his cabinet ministers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These contracts aim to strengthen the capacity of the state and increase accountability, the presidency said in a statement on Tuesday (8 December).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These agreements \u2013 which are based on the targets contained in the Medium-Term Strategic Framework \u2013 will be made public so that the people of South Africa can hold those who they elected into office to account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The contracts largely follow the same formula and coalesce to meet a series of larger performance targets that the government is aiming for.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the main targets include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reducing unemployment to 20 &#8211; 24% with two million new jobs created, especially for youth;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Drive a transformed, representative and inclusive economy which prioritises women, youth and persons with disabilities;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Push for investment to reach 23% of GDP by 2024 with the public sector contributing 8% of GDP and the private sector contributing 15% 0f GDP;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Get the National Health Insurance (NHI) to achieve universal coverage for 90% of South Africans by 2030;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Assist more students to achieve a National Senior Certificate pass in subjects by 2024;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliminating fruitless and wasteful expenditure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find the full list of performance agreements for each minister <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.za\/about-government\/government-system\/ministers-performance-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The list of targets for each minister are quite in-depth and relate directly to their portfolios. However, they do not present much in the way for consequences or accountability when failing to meet them.<\/p>\n<p>Performance will be regularly reviewed by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), through which a score card on the targets will be drawn up and presented to the president.<\/p>\n<p>In instances where performance is sub-optimal, the president will &#8216;meet with the minister to discuss areas of improvement&#8217;. These will be incorporated on the scorecard for the next performance review.<\/p>\n<p>The president may take \u2018any action he deems necessary\u2019 in cases of persistent non-performance.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/455406\/the-shocking-state-of-maths-and-science-education-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The shocking state of maths and science education in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As announced in his state of the nation address on 13 February, president Cyril Ramaphosa has signed performance agreements with all of his cabinet ministers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":318656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-455434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455434"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455458,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455434\/revisions\/455458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}