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Eastern Cape councillors in hot water

Political leaders in the Enoch Mgijima Municipality (councillors) who oversaw the construction and unveiling of the controversial 15 million rands (368 million naira) Lessyton Sports Field in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, are in hot water.

The provincial Cooperative Governance minister, Xolile Nqatha, gave them 48 hours to tell him why they should not be suspended for reportedly wasting taxpayers' money and bringing the ruling ANC party into disrepute.

He was speaking at the sport field during an oversight visit on Thursday.

This after pictures of the under-resourced sports field, which circulated on social media this week, caused an uproar.

Scores of people questioned its hefty price tag.

The sports field has no working ablution facilities and electricity, while its grass athletic track is marked with fading white paint. It also has removable roofless metal stands for spectators.

Nqatha said the fate of councillors depended on the report he was expecting from the municipality's speaker, Bongiwe Gladness van Heerden.

"Therefore, the speaker, who is responsible for [the] code and conduct of councillors, must give me a report as to what she is doing to ensure that those councillors are held accountable.

"For that, I am giving her 48 hours to give me the report showing what steps she is taking to hold those councillors responsible for bringing the institution into disrepute."

Speaking in the presence of the municipality's leadership, Nqatha said: "I am not a technical expert, but what I have seen and what I have read, there is no value for money here. There's got to be accountability as to whether due processes were followed in appointing the service provider and what really happened."

Meanwhile, the ANC's provincial executive committee (PEC) said if the investigation found any wrongdoing, the provincial government would act and deal decisively with corruption, mismanagement and the waste of public resources to make sure public money was spent on the services needed.

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Africa, my Africa

Chai!!!!

Blood of Jesus!!!

And they still put ribbon to commission it

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See the shameless people opening teeth to take pictures

See massive looting

Hahaha

Chai looting spree

See goal post
This is the real definition of corruption honestly

They are not different from PDP who spent about N11.5billion for an imaginary headquarters of their Party.

Nigeria don finally extend hands to SA… Kudos…

One public toilet that was comissioned and a kpako bridge comes to mind.
Lol.
Africa my Africa we too strong

Kwaruption every where

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N300 million is a small money na.
That's not even upto £600k.

Although that doesn't mean they couldn't have done better

That's a local government being empowered enough to build a stadium. This does not happen in Nigeria

TMKsouth:
Eastern Cape councillors in hot water

Political leaders in the Enoch Mgijima Municipality (councillors) who oversaw the construction and unveiling of the controversial 15 million rands (368 million naira) Lessyton Sports Field in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, are in hot water.

The provincial Cooperative Governance minister, Xolile Nqatha, gave them 48 hours to tell him why they should not be suspended for reportedly wasting taxpayers' money and bringing the ruling ANC party into disrepute.

He was speaking at the sport field during an oversight visit on Thursday.

This after pictures of the under-resourced sports field, which circulated on social media this week, caused an uproar.

Scores of people questioned its hefty price tag.

The sports field has no working ablution facilities and electricity, while its grass athletic track is marked with fading white paint. It also has removable roofless metal stands for spectators.

Nqatha said the fate of councillors depended on the report he was expecting from the municipality's speaker, Bongiwe Gladness van Heerden.

"Therefore, the speaker, who is responsible for [the] code and conduct of councillors, must give me a report as to what she is doing to ensure that those councillors are held accountable.

"For that, I am giving her 48 hours to give me the report showing what steps she is taking to hold those councillors responsible for bringing the institution into disrepute."

Speaking in the presence of the municipality's leadership, Nqatha said: "I am not a technical expert, but what I have seen and what I have read, there is no value for money here. There's got to be accountability as to whether due processes were followed in appointing the service provider and what really happened."

Meanwhile, the ANC's provincial executive committee (PEC) said if the investigation found any wrongdoing, the provincial government would act and deal decisively with corruption, mismanagement and the waste of public resources to make sure public money was spent on the services needed.

Maybe nah the land cost, real estate value of the location is high and expensive.

Tobiloba24072:
Maybe nah the land cost, real estate value of the location is high and expensive.

Turns out this company has a history of shoddy work.

The good thing is that justice works in South Africa, this people will payback all the money they gained unlawfully and they will also charged by court of law.

If it was Nigeria, nothing was going to happen to councilors because corruption is a way of living in Nigeria and also because there is no justice and accountability

zhike:
The good thing is that justice works in South Africa, this people will payback all the money they gained unlawfully and they will also charged by court of law.

If it was Nigeria, nothing was going to happen to councilors because corruption is a way of living in Nigeria and also because there is no justice and accountability

@bolded - that's true.

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This Africa is a joke

Where is the stadium?

Sakamaje stadium. Laugh wan kee me. Kwarapshan.