The Ad Hoc Group for the Protection of Property Rights has taken note of ANC Secretary-General Jessie Duarte’s remarks on Monday, on Expropriation without Compensation at a media conference. During the interview, she elaborated on the ideological fiction that expropriation without compensation (EWC) is at the heart of economic development.
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Jessie Duarte’s Outdated Ideology on Land Expropriation without Compensation Represents Unworkable & Unrealistic ANC Factional Thinking
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Pretoria’s homeless want keys to government building that has been unused for five years
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Pretoria’s homeless want keys to unused government building in Salvokop. It makes no sense to sleep in the streets when government owns a brand new building that hasn’t been unused for years since it was built. This sentiment was expressed by leaders of Pretoria homeless people who yesterday gathered outside the locked building in Salvokop…
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More ‘money wasted’ and there are lots of concerns over incomplete Free State drug treatment centre
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The Portfolio Committee on Social Development wants to have a meeting with the National Treasury and the Department of Public Works as to why a drug treatment centre in the Free State has not been completed.
In a statement the committee said the facility has been under construction for three years without any progress. This was despite funds having been allocated and made available to the province annually, as a conditional grant.
“This delay impacts negatively on the agreement of having at least one drug treatment centre in every province,” committee chairperson, Zoleka Capa said.
The committee received a shocking report from the Central Drug Authority (CDA) on how the use of drugs is escalating in communities, something which leads to crime and violence in communities.
“This has increased the committee’s belief in the fact that these drug treatment facilities in all provinces should be prioritised in order to deal with this scourge. The committee
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ANC regime landgrab program is used in an attempt to recruit government votes for the upcoming election
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The Department of Public Works says a “rapid follow-up” process is planned to make land available quickly to give momentum to the landgrab program. The state has a property portfolio of more than 93,000 buildings and more than 1.9 million hectares of land under the control of the Department. The government’s land-grabbing program entails that..
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That’s how the taxpayer’s money is stolen! – Department of Public Works spends R300 million on rent for buildings and parking spaces that do not exist
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Adv. Director General Sam Vukela reveals that the Department of Public Works spend R300 million on rent for buildings and parking spaces that do not exist it in the department’s 2017-18-year report. This damning evidence on which he and Thulas Nxesi, minister, and Jeremy Cronin, deputy minister and other departmental heads of government, reported on..
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Government spend Half a million on braai areas for ministers that is funded with taxpayers money
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The department is said to have about 148 ministerial houses that cost anywhere between R4m and R9m. Themba Godi, who is the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), made it clear on Tuesday that taxpayers could not possibly be expected to foot the bill for the expenditure. The SCOPA revealed that the..
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Millions to be wasted on President Zuma’s Nkandla homestead
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The South African government is preparing to spend “millions” in taxpayers’ money on President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, according to a report by the Sunday Times. The report stated that the Department of Public Works confirmed processes were underway to refurbish the property, repair “shoddy workmanship”, and address security concerns. “While the assessment is not..
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