The Free State Premier continues to ask for more funds and the ANC just keeps giving them to her.
The Free State Legislature today (Thursday) approved the adjustment budget, allocating an additional R7 million to Premier MaQueen Mathae’s office.
The Freedom Front Plus voted against it. The Premier’s Department is not a service delivery department and allocating funds beyond the initial budget, which already exceeded R630 million, is a disgrace.
As Premier, she should see to it that the province’s departments do not forfeit money (R32 million in the current financial year), instead, she asks for more money to spend on senseless projects.
These senseless expenses include, among other things:
- R11 million for so-called community development workers,
- R1,5 million for a G20 event,
- R3 million to declare gender-based violence a disaster, and
- R2 million for a so-called SMS indaba.
Meanwhile, her Department is currently under investigation for R482 million and R31 million in irregular and fruitless and wasteful expenditure, respectively.
The additional R62 million budgeted and earmarked for municipal debt by the provincial government is also not enough.
Service delivery and infrastructure departments either struggle to obtain money for critical services or they fail to complete projects, such as building and repairing roads and hospitals.
As long as the ANC remains in control of the province’s purse, money will be squandered on misguided priorities.
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Australia: You have two cows. Upon further inspection, you realize that one is a koala, the other a kangaroo.
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An retired elderly couple visit London..
They get picked up from the airport in a london black cab and head off into the city for some adventure.
The cab driver say \”where you from guvnor?
Husband. \”we\’re from South Africa\”..
The wife is a little hard of hearing asks her husband.
\”What did he say?\”
The husband turns to his wife and says louder \”the cab driver asked us where we were from, I told him South Africa!\”
The cabbie continues \”I was in the merchant navy years back… I got to drop anchor down your way, a few times in Johannesburg\”
The husband replies \”oh wow that\’s where we\’re from originally, now we\’re in Cape Town.\”
The wife asks the husband again \”what did he say?\”.
The husband again relays the unheard conversation \”the cab driver says he spent some time in the navy and went down to joberg\”.
The wife smiles and nods.