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ANC-regime is blatantly misusing our money on its own election campaign, the Free State SOPA expenditure is going to cost the taxpayer more than R2 million

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The Free State’s State of the Province Address (SOPA) will probably cost taxpayers more than R2 million. The greater part of the expense was not budgeted for nor planned and yet the money has already been squandered without the necessary approval.

The extravagant expense becomes even more unacceptable and fruitless when one takes into account that there will be another SOPA after the elections later this year.

The ANC is misusing taxpayers’ money by furthering its own election campaign with official government functions.

This year’s SOPA, which will be held on Tuesday at the University of the Free State’s Vista campus, will once again be characterised by excessive expenditure. The service provider’s fee for organising the event currently amounts to approximately R1,8 million.

This amount excludes the fee for hiring the main venue (R156 000) as well as the fee for hiring a separate venue where nearly 1200 delegates will enjoy a l
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Thousands of social support applications found dumped in a field in the Free State – Can the government explain how did this happen and confirm whether the applications were processed before they were dumped

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The Democratic Alliance claims it found “thousands” of social support applications dumped in a field in the Free State on Monday.

“It is heartbreaking that the applications were for abused children and complainants without any source of income and who turned to the department in the hopes that their situation would be turned around,” DA Free State premier candidate Patricia Kopane said.

Kopane and party spokesperson Geordin Hill-Lewis found the documents in an open field while they were conducting an oversight inspection at a waste recycling plant in Thaba Nchu, about 70km east of Bloemfontein.

Kopane wrote to Free State social development MEC Butana Kompela demanding an investigation.

“It is unacceptable that officials at the department of social development can be so reckless with confidential information which should not be seen by the public.”

Kopane said most recent documents were from October 2018 and included:</p
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Attacks on elderly becoming more brutal each week – Elderly woman’s face crushed in after savage farm attack in Free State

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A savage farm attack took place at Bloemspruit in the Free State Province. The attack was tweeted by Ian Cameron of AfriForum on 6 December 2018. An elderly female victim (70) was attacked on Tuesday afternoon, 4 December 2018. The SA Police Service detectives only started investigation on scene on the Wednesday morning.

The victim had her face crushed in by the attacker and she is currently in ICU in Bloemfontein. There is no other information available at this stage and there have been no arrests.

The incident was tweeted by Ian Cameron

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FARM ATTACK: Bloemspruit, Free State Province. 1 elderly female victim (70) attacked on Tuesday afternoon. @SAPoliceService detectives only started investigation on scene on Wednesday morning. Victim is currently in ICU in Bloem. Victims face was crushed by attacker. pic.twitter.com/0sHWL9X3Z5

— Ian Cameron (@IanCameron23) December 6, 2018

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