The shutdown of Eastern Cape roads by taxi operators over four-month payment delays for scholar transport services, which caused chaos in the province yesterday, has been suspended. This after a meeting in East London between taxi council leaders and provincial transport leaders, including Oscar Mabuyane who is said to have joined telephonically.
Eastern Cape finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko has expressed concern about municipalities that fail to timeously spend disaster funds released to them by the national government. Speaking to the Daily Dispatch (http://www.dispatchlive.co.za) after his budget speech, Mvoko said municipalities were part of the spending problems faced by the Eastern Cape government.
Despite the EFF confirming the expulsion of 62 members and public representatives after their failure to procure transport for members to the party’s 10th anniversary rally, some have refused to quit their roles until they receive official notice.
The Eastern Cape has the second-highest percentage of households in the country a whopping 19.5% who have no access to piped water in their areas. And many of these households have to share their water source dams, rivers and streams in rural areas with animals.