‘Shape up or ship out’ SCOPA tells Makana leadership
Parliament had Makhanda’s long-running water crisis and Makana’s management practices in its sights during an oversight visit to the municipality this week. Makana was one of five Eastern Cape municipalities Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) visited last week.
In a day of relentless questioning, MPs shredded officials from Makana, Amatola Water and the Department of Water and Sanitation. And as if to test the Committee’s assertion that nothing would stand in their way, a deafening thunderstorm exploding midway through the harrowing four-hour probe merely had chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa advising those asking and answering questions to “use your rally voice”.
Accused Makana official back at work
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An example of a DVS APC. The photograph comes from an undated company brochure.
Another depressing view of the depths State-owned defence conglomerate Denel has sunk to comes from a Democratic Alliance (DA) parliamentarian following an oversight visit to Ekurhuleni-based Denel Vehicle Systems (DVS).
Michelle Clarke, the party’s shadow deputy public enterprises minister, will “urgently engage” Pravin Gordhan, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet Minister responsible for State-owned enterprises (SOEs), after visiting DVS in Benoni. She is the second Opposition parliamentarian to take up Denel issues with Minister Gordhan in less than a month. Benedicta van Minnen, a member of Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) is still waiting for him to answer her on allegations of reckless trading at Denel.