Minister Chabane tables MDDA's unqualified Annual Report 2012/13 On 28 August 2013, the Minister in the Presidency, Collins Chabane tabled in Parliament the MDDA 2012/13 Annual Report (including the AGSA report on AFS and Performance Information) as required by the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 and MDDA Act. This year, the MDDA is celebrating its ten year anniversary and has always received unqualified audit opinion. Notably, this year it received a Certificate of Excellence for achieving a CLEAN AUDIT opinion from the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA). This is yet more proof of the MDDA's commitment to being one of the leading examples in the area of financial reporting, good governance and accountability within the public sector.  The Annual Report also incorporates performance information measured against predetermined objectives on how the agency performed in key areas such as grant funding, research and training, advocacy for media development and diversity, fundraising, public awareness, promoting media literacy, customer perspective, internal business processes, human resources, financial management, audit quality assurance, employment equity and broad-based black economic empowerment. Amongst other notable achievements, the agency has supported 44 projects in the year under review and accumulatively from its establishment in January 2004, 496 as at 31 March 2013. Since inception, the agency has trained 2021 people in areas ranging from financial management, essentials of broadcast management, adverting and marketing, media literacy, compliance, media laws, ethics, marketing and branding, community mapping, writing and presenting reports, effective media management, photography, etc. The agency builds capacity of its projects through mentorship and coaching programmes, where mentors are sent to assist projects and learn about running a successful project, develop policies, systems and procedures, and design templates that will make it easy for projects to use on the departure of the mentors, kind of hold my hand assistance. The readership, viewership and listenership of supported projects have grown, with community radio accounting for more than 25% of the total radio listenership. The agency takes the opportunity to thank the government (whose valuable support for the agency through GCIS and the presidency has made its work manageable), its funding partners, stakeholders and the beneficiary projects. Further, the MDDA would like to encourage the new print media owners and new broadcast service licensees to join hands in assisting the building of an environment where a diverse, vibrant and creative media flourishes and reflects the needs of all South Africans.
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