Heads must roll for school nutrition payment failure
May 9th, 2023
Bureaucrats responsible for the delay in payments of the National School Nutrition Transfer funds to Eastern Cape schools should lose their jobs with immediate effect. Their actions have taken food out of the mouths of starving children, many of whom have no access to other meals. That these children have not received any food since April and will most likely only get food again next week, if payments are processed …
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Tens of thousands of learners have gone without food at school for almost a month because the Department of Education has failed to pay over the latest tranche of school nutrition funding. For many children, the food they receive from their school nutrition programme is often the only meal they receive each day. When schools are unable to feed them, it places an additional burden on families already buckling under …
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People living in rural villages across the Eastern Cape are battling daily to secure water for their daily needs despite this right being enshrined in the constitution. They are forced to walk long distances to collect water from rivers, or drink water from animal troughs, because the municipal taps they have been provided are dry. This situation has been further aggravated by the excessive loadshedding, which disrupts pumping on water …
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Exactly 1 386 days have passed since the Democratic Alliance (DA) first opened a case on 10 July 2019 against the Chris Hani District Municipality’s then Municipal Manager, Dr Bhekisisa Methembu, for failing to act on raw sewage flowing into the Fish River and surrounding fresh water sources and the SAPS has apparently done nothing. Nearly four years later the problems persist, with collapsed infrastructure resulting in ongoing sewage spills …
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Public servants take R1.2 billion in sick leave over two years
April 26th, 2023 Service delivery to the communities of the Eastern Cape is being severely disrupted because public sector employees are taking excessive sick leave or simply going AWOL, costing the public purse hundreds of millions of rand each year. The Democratic Alliance will be referring these statistics to the Public Service Commission and will call for an investigation into the abuse of sick leave in the province. The abuse of sick leave …
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