National government needs look no further than that province for an example of how it can be done.

All 25 departments and public entities falling under the DA-led Western Cape government received unqualified audits for the 2009-10 financial year.

Refugees want to tell Ebrahim Rasool that they are terrified of being forced to reintegrate, despite camps being scheduled to close on July 23.

The Western Cape government may join in a contemplated R20-million lawsuit claim against a Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor it claims is behind the illegal occupation of houses at Delft on the Cape Flats. Premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Friday that his administration has been given "preliminary" legal advice that it could sue the DA as well.

The death toll from Tuesday's accident involving a truck crammed with farmworkers has risen to eight. The news came as the Western Cape government vowed to crack down on the way farmworkers are transported. The accident happened in the Boland, when the truck, reportedly carrying about 70 farmworkers, overturned.

The Western Cape government is winning the war against drugs, Premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Monday. "Considering that this financial year is only halfway through, police have already arrested 374 high flyers ... confiscated 37 558 grams of mandrax, 6 499 grams of methamphetamine [tik] and 4 447 grams of heroin," he said.