Mahikeng: Provincial Treasury’s support and oversight role to departments, municipalities and State Owned Entities must extend beyond compliance. The support must drive accountability and improvement in financial management and service delivery across the administration. The stable leadership, oversight and accountability that has been key to Provincial Treasury mandate needs to be duplicated in the administration.
The department’s stable and decisive leadership, consistent governance structures, daily implementation of controls and ongoing efforts in achieving a clean audit outcome for the past 13 years need to be replicated to target more clean audits in the provincial administration.
The MEC for Finance, Ms Kenetswe Mosenogi said that “the strategic planning session in preparation for the draft 2027/28 Annual Performance Plan must be used to put different measures in place to ensure departments, entities and municipalities start doing things differently. The enforcement reports produced must ensure that departments, municipalities and SOE’s utilize the funds for service delivery.”
The session provided senior managers with the opportunity to inputs towards the 2027/28 Annual Performance Plan and allows them to highlight challenges faced during 2026/27 financial year.
The senior managers, officials from National Treasury, Auditor General South Africa, Office of the Premier and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) participated in the planning session reflected amongst others on the departmental key findings from the 2025/26 Audit Outcomes, implications for Provincial Treasury planning and budgeting for the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and strengthening of collaboration towards sustainable municipalities.
Furthermore, the session covered progress made across municipalities, public entities and provincial government departments. The progress registered shows Provincial Treasury’s commitment in improving financial governance and service delivery and aligns the provincial and national priorities.
“Strategic planning is not only about a compliance exercise, but it is a strategic process that enables government mitigate risks and allocate its resources wisely” emphasized MEC in her closing remarks.
One of the key commitments that MEC Mosenogi highlighted during the session was on that the department develop mechanisms that will enhance revenue collection within the North West Province.
Through this strategic planning session, the North West Provincial Treasury reaffirms its commitment to address provincial financial management challenges and unlock opportunities for inclusive growth, sustainable development and improve on the expenditure efficiency.
Ends.
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