'Cash cow' agencies lashed for failing public mandate
Tasked with driving development in the province’s struggling municipalities, not one of the Eastern Cape’s municipal development agencies has had a clean bill of health from the auditor-general.
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Tasked with driving development in the province’s struggling municipalities, not one of the Eastern Cape’s municipal development agencies has had a clean bill of health from the auditor-general.
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