President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet is a well balanced team with the potential to make improvement to the country, Independent Democrats leader Patricia De Lille said on Monday.

"Overall, we are satisfied that this is a well-balanced team," De Lille said.

"We have always brought up the urgent need for proper planning and implementation and we feel that the new Cabinet has the potential to make improvements."

The creation of a National Planning Commission (NPC) was long overdue as there has been a vacuum between policy making and policy implementation in the past 15 years, she said.

"We also hope that the NPC will ensure that they transform all the departments so that they can deliver on their constitutional obligations.

"Transformation must bring about excellence in terms of delivery."

De Lille welcomed the introduction of a Monitoring and Evaluation Minister in the Presidency and the creation of the new Ministry for Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities.

All ministers should be thoroughly screened to prevent any conflicts of interest in their new ministries, she said.

"We also call on President Zuma and the Premiers to establish a performance management system to monitor and hold ministers to account for service delivery targets.

"These performance assessments must be made public every three months," De Lille said.