The agreement sees Mathabatha's executive control being restored to the five provincial departments that have been under administration since December 2011 due to maladministration and financial mismanagement.
The National Council of Provinces though still needs to ratify the agreement.
The Star reports that the premier and his executive will still have to account to national government, which is still able to issue directives to the province.
The administration team will leave the province after running the five provincial departments for the three last years.
The team though had a mixed bag of results, according to the latest audit outcomes report by Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu.
The AG found that none of the departments run by the administration team had achieved a clean audit since 2011. Makwetu said that the administartion team had had no effect on the province's internal control environment.
"Despite an improvement in the audit outcomes of Roads and Transport, Public Works and Health, the sustainability of the outcomes is in question once the administration team withdraws from the province as skills were not transferred," Makwetu was quoted as saying by The Star.
The AG also found that while the administartion team had succeeded in dramatically reducing unauthorised expenditure from R325-million in the previous financial year to this financial year's figure of R16m, it had failed to reduce irregular expenditure which had rocketed from R2bn to R3.5bn under the team.
"The significant irregular expenditure... was mainly due to non-compliance with supply chain management requirements," said Makwetu.
Primedia Online.
Culled from Yahoo News.
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