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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) – 2023/24 Financial Year
x Enforcing the PFMA and any prescribed national and provincial norms and standards, including

any prescribed standards of generally recognised accounting practices and uniform classification
systems, in provincial departments;

x Ensure compliance with the annual Division of Revenue Act (DoRA), and monitor and assess the
implementation of DoRA in provincial departments, municipalities and public entities;
x Monitor and assess the implementation of national and provincial norms and standards by

provincial public entities;
x Assist provincial departments, municipalities and provincial public entities in building their capacity

for efficient, effective and transparent financial management;
x Investigate any system of financial management and internal control applied by a provincial

department or a provincial public entity; and
x Municipal support and enforce Municipal Finance Management.

1.5. Demands for and expected changes in the services

The endeavour to ensure Provincial Treasury carries its mandate to the fullest has necessitated the review
of the organisational structure in order to enhance efficiency in supporting departments and municipalities.

In the case of Municipal Financial Governance, there are 13 additional posts to cover areas that were not
catered for in the old organogram such as Revenue Collection, Supply Chain Management, Audit and Risk
Management, and Accounting Services, which are deemed crucial in the attainment of clean audit

outcomes by municipalities.

In line with the Provincial Medium Term Strategic Framework (P-MTSF) Priority 2: Economic
transformation and job creation, the department issued the Strategic Procurement Framework (SPF) to all

provincial departments for implementation to provide guidance on the strategic procurement and strategic
sourcing principles that will be applied across the Eastern Cape Provincial Government. This will also

guide on how these principles will be applied and integrated into existing Procurement Planning and
Compliance Monitoring Processes. This priority was considered in the organisational structure review
through enhancing the capacity of Asset and Liability Management by creating an additional function to

monitor the implementation of the SPF especially with regards to infrastructure procurement.

In order to strengthen the Department of Health Intervention with an intention to eradicate medico-legal
claims which put a strain on the provincial budget, 19 posts have been created. To sustain the project with
the limited resources, the medico-legal team has been allocated areas of responsibility as champions.

1.6. The Acts, rules and regulations

The department derives its existence from Sections 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 226, 227 and 230 of the

Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996), Sections 17 and 18 of the Public Finance
Management Act (PFMA), 1999 as amended, Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) and National

Treasury Regulations.

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