The Democratic Alliance (DA) has urged the public to hold government to account by participating in the party’s process of evaluating Cabinet ministers, launched on Thursday.
Briefing the media during the launch of the party’s Cabinet report card website, DA parliamentary leader Sandra Botha said the process accorded the public a rare opportunity to rate government ministers.
”There are very few avenues available to members of the public through which they can register their satisfaction with or disapproval of the government.
”It is the DA’s hope that this web page provides such a forum,” she said.
On the website, members of the public will be able to rate the performance of the 30 national Cabinet ministers in 2007.
The marks would then be used by the DA when it compiled its annual Cabinet report card in December.
”The page is designed to allow a person to vote only once every 30 minutes, in order to avoid block voting,” Botha said.
In the same process last year, the DA’s report card gave President Thabo Mbeki a score of five out of 10, his deputy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka four, while minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad scored three. – Sapa