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At a time when interest rate hikes and rising food and fuel prices are making it increasingly difficult for people to make ends meet, executives of the ten Eastern Cape Provincial Entities are still living their best lives. Eastern Cape Premier, Oscar Mabuyane, needs to stop the gravy train and make good on his promise to rationalise these entities. He needs to shut down these bloated, inefficient, revenue-draining entities that …
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The Democratic Alliance is calling on the provincial government to cut its losses in the Magwa Tea Plantation, accept that the project has failed and move on. Instead of reviewing the feasibility of the project, the Eastern Cape Provincial Government has budgeted a staggering R88 million for the plantation over the next three years. This is over and above the R305 million invested by the Government between the 2012/13 and …
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The Democratic Alliance today rejected the provincial budget tabled in the Provincial Legislature, as it fails to put the needs of the people of this province first. Sadly, this has not stopped the ANC from pushing the budget through, issuing themselves and their cadres a free ticket for another year onboard the gravy train at the expense of the people they claim to serve. Rather than prioritise funding to deal …
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Eastern Cape municipalities have slashed 360 000 indigent households from their books, not because the poor have become less poor, but because municipalities failed to provide assistance during the greatest time of need. Shocking statistics show a massive decrease in the number of recognized indigent households in the province between 2017 and 2021, at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has caused massive economic hardships. Unemployment in the province surged …
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) is calling for a moratorium to be placed on the purchase of all new official vehicles for municipal political office bearers in the province. In response to parliamentary questions by the DA, Eastern Cape MEC for CoGTA, Xolile Nqatha, revealed how vehicles to the value of R26,8 million had been purchased to transport political office bearers in Eastern Cape Municipalities between 2016 and 2021. Download IQP …
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