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News24 reports that nearly two years after Cabinet ministers signed performance agreements, none of them has been made to answer for their progress and there is also no sign of the "regular evaluations" which were meant to take place.
This is according to Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen, who slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa's Cabinet for failing to meet the requirements of their performance agreements. In his 2020 State of the Nation Address (SONA), Ramaphosa announced that each minister would be expected to sign a ministerial performance agreement. The performance agreements Ramaphosa signed with each minister requires them to give effect to the seven priority areas he outlined in his SONA in June 2019. Steenhuisen commented: "No minister has been made to answer for his or her progress, and there is no sign whatsoever of the 'regular evaluations' that were meant to take place. We are now past halfway through the term of this administration, and it has become clear that these performance agreements were nothing but a box-ticking exercise to create the illusion of accountability." Steenhuisen went on to claim: "There was never any intention to use these agreements as a real tool to enforce accountability. After the initial media coverage of the ministers and the president signing the agreements, they were simply left to gather dust."
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jason Felix at News24
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