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EASTERN CAPE PRESENTATION TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRS Acting Provincial Manager:Eastern Cape, Sonto Lusu 20 May 2008.
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EASTERN CAPE PRESENTATION TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON HOME AFFAIRSActing Provincial Manager:Eastern Cape, Sonto Lusu20 May 2008
The Eastern Cape is the second-largest of the nine provinces by surface area, it has a population of 7 million people covering 169 580 km2 of land. It is vast, rural, has farming and mountainous areas, administrative areas, traditional authorities. Has amalgamated former homelands Transkei and Ciskei with Republic of South Africa and this meant high number of citizens with IDs from the homelands, thus increased demand for Citizen Registration. Due to the EC history, its rich heritage, the diverse culture of its people, game farms and national parks visitors from all over the world are flocking to the Province. Most of the economic activity happens in the Nelson Mandela Metro and East London, where the two IDZs, East London IDZ and Coega are and where the multinational motor companies Daimler Chrysler in East London, VWSA, GMSA and Ford in the Nelson Mandela Metro are operating thus our permitting sections are very busy. EC has world known institutions of higher learning like Rhodes and Fort Hare and they also bring a demand for study and work permit applications. Eastern Cape has two sea ports Port Elizabeth and East London, three airports in Port Elizabeth, East London and Mthatha and 4 land ports Ongeluksnek, Ramatsiliso, Tellebridge and Qacha’s Nek and in the land ports Home Affairs services are provided in latter two. The majority of the people speak isiXhosa, followed by Afrikaans, English, and Sesotho. There is little racial diversity in EC North i.e. former Transkei What is unique to the Province?
In 2006, the unemployment rate of the province stood at 22,1%. This is significant as there is a significant number of older citizens who are not qualifying for old age grants but want to change their details so that they can be older and be able to access old age grants. This is a source of conflict between communities and Home Affairs The Karoo interior as well as Senqu/Ukhahlamba area are an important sheep-farming area and the challenge is that the Industry exploits Lesotho citizens for cheap sheep shearing. The Sundays River valley where oranges are produced in areas like Addo also are giving us a challenge in terms or employing undocumented migrants especially from Zimbabwe The Inspectorate component is closely monitoring this in liason with local municipalities. Corporate permits are provided. The road infrastructure in the province is not too good and this leads to high rate of repairs to the mobile trucks that are overwhelmed by the gravel roads they have to travel on in order to bring services closer to the people. Telkom, Eskom and SITA in the Province are not adequately resourced to deal quickly with Home Affairs requests, they take a very long time to put in Telkom lines, data points and electricity in our new and alternative accommodation. There are overlaps in service provision between Kwa-Zulu-Natal and Eastern Cape and this leads to confusion as to who should serve us e.g Eskom, XPS and Telkom What is unique to the Province?
Eastern Cape South King William’s Town (1 078 637 population) Port Elizabeth (1 005 776 population) Queenstown (810 285 population) Total Population EC South 2 894 698 Eastern Cape North Mthatha (1 197 510 population) Lusikisiki (1 064 584 population) Mt Frere (891 721 population) Total Population EC North: 3 153 815 Population served by Regional Offices Total Population EC: 6 048 513 (2006 data)
We have organized our team by… Organisational Structure Acting Provincial Manager (Ms N Lusu) Area Manager: Eastern Cape South (Mr LS Myataza) Acting Area Manager Eastern Cape North (Mr SI Khobi) (King William’s Town Region) Regional Manager (Mr HMS Fotoyi) (Port Elizabeth Region) Regional Manager (Mr T Mnunu) (Queenstown Region) Regional Manager (Ms HY Ntantiso) (Lusikisiki Region) Regional Manager (Mr K Diko) (Mthatha Region) Regional Manager (Mr SI Khobi) (Mt Frere Region) Regional Manager (Mr N Stuurman)
Volume of activity at Ports of Entry 2007/2008 Amount of paid on administrative fines: R39 500 Amount paid on imposed fines: R1 936 000
Budget for 2007/08 Budget Planned vs Actual (Rm) Key Comments • 2006/07- Underspending: due to late payment of invoices by Head office and the NIB funded posts that could not be filled due to the limited number approved • 2007/08- have overspent on Goods and Services as invoices for the previous year had to be paid during in this financial year. Also identified is foreseeable is the shortfall on salaries and shifting of funds has been done in offices where the funds are still available even after the projections.
The interaction with Municipalities is done at the following fora: IDP Forum in Local Municipalities District Managers Forum with other government departments Municipality Social Clusters Case Flow Management Cluster Batho Pele Co-ordination Forums Technical Task Team for 2009 Elections Relationship with Local Municipalities
Eastern Cape establishment Total approved establishment = 1252 Total filled posts = 589(47%) Vacancies = 709 (57%) Funded vacancies: 18.3%, Unfunded vacancies: 81.5% Staff Levels: 10 to 14
Eastern Cape staff including frontline Staff Levels 1 to 9
Employment equity Employment Equity Report – (Percentage of Employees per Category) Disabled employees as a percentage of total = 1.2% 4.4% 100% Female 4.2% 91% Male Target 88% 7.40% 0.30% 4.70%
