ECDC ‘to be called to account’.
THE office of premier Noxolo Kiviet is expected to table a report on its investigation into how more than R20-million for the Nelson Mandela memorial was spent by the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC).
The report will be tabled to the executive council (exco) later this month.
Qwase said the money was earmarked, not only for the memorials and the funeral arrangements, “but also for infrastructure-related issues around the area where the funeral took place”.
“ECDC was assigned to pay using the money allocated to them. This was deliberately done by exco because there was no department that has budgeted for any eventuality of Mandela’s death,” he said.
Asked about the more than R700000 spent on takeaways, Qwase said it was used to feed police and marshals who had camped for three days in the Mthatha/Qunu area where Madiba’s funeral took place.
- Meanwhile, Kiviet officially launched the provincial Freedom Month celebrations at State House in Bhisho yesterday.
Kiviet said corruption in the province was embedded in the system and did not come to the fore during the democratic dispensation, but was more rife in the apartheid era.
During the launch, the premier reflected on how the province had progressed in realising the goals of socio-economic development since the dawn of democracy in 1994. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
Report to ‘please explain’ R20m
THE office of premier Noxolo Kiviet is expected to table a report on its investigation into how more than R20-million for the Nelson Mandela memorial was spent by the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC).
The report will be tabled to the executive council (exco) later this month.
Qwase said the money was earmarked, not only for the memorials and the funeral arrangements, “but also for infrastructure-related issues around the area where the funeral took place”.
“ECDC was assigned to pay using the money allocated to them. This was deliberately done by exco because there was no department that has budgeted for any eventuality of Mandela’s death,” he said.
Asked about the more than R700000 spent on takeaways, Qwase said it was used to feed police and marshals who had camped for three days in the Mthatha/Qunu area where Madiba’s funeral took place.
Kiviet said corruption in the province was embedded in the system and did not come to the fore during the democratic dispensation, but was more rife in the apartheid era.
During the launch, the premier reflected on how the province had progressed in realising the goals of socio-economic development since the dawn of democracy in 1994. — asandan@dispatch.co.za
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