THE Eastern Cape Health Department has run up a Telkom bill of more than R20-million – and now the communications utility has pulled the plug on some of its lines.
DA provincial health spokesman Pine Pienaar said dysfunctional financial management has brought the department to its knees. Read the full story in The Herald.
BHISHO’S Health Department headquarters have had their telephone lines cut thanks to the department’s unpaid Telkom bill of more than R23 million.
“This is an embarrassment and stands in the way of building a relationship with our community and possible investors,” Democratic Alliance health spokesperson Pine Pienaar said. Read the full story in the Daily Dispatch.
IF THERE was one resounding message that emerged from a public meeting hosted by this newspaper, Fort Hare University and the Eastern Cape Finance Department on Wednesday night, it was the need for an overhaul of provincial procurement procedures in the Eastern Cape.
DA leader in the Eastern Cape Legislature, Bobby Stevenson, says in the Western Cape, where the DA is in power, that tenders are opened and deliberated on in public. This would seem to be a sound approach. Read the full article in the Daily Dispatch.
Tenders and how they should or shouldn’t be dished out – came under the spotlight at the Daily Dispatch- University of Fort Hare Dialogue held in East London on Wednesday night.
Finance MEC Mcebisi Jonas – was the first to acknowledge that streamlining the tender process was a priority for government, and his call was echoed by the DA’s Bobby Stevenson who called for reforms of how tenders were awarded in order to root out corruption. Read the full story in the Daily Dispatch.
DIGNITARIES rolled into Bhisho en masse yesterday for the official opening of the R80-million House of Traditional Leaders. The Eastern Cape is the first province in the country to provide traditional leaders with a dedicated building for their affairs.
DA spokesman on traditional leaders Veliswa Mvenya agreed the project would restore dignity, and the building was good value for money. “The DA supports traditional leaders because they are at ground level – they know the people’s needs and are close to them.” Read the full story in the Weekend Post.
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