DA calls for ANC-led Gauteng Government to be held accountable for its misdeeds
13 September 2018
A toxic cocktail of a lack of accountability and lack of resources in government is directly responsible for tragedies such as the Bank of Lisbon fire in downtown Johannesburg as well as the Esidimeni saga.
The MEC for Infrastructure Development, Jacob Mamabolo, has indicated that the Department of Infrastructure Development recently received a report in response to a request for an ad-hoc conditional assessment of its buildings in the CBD. Despite this, it is incorrect to say that the administration was not aware of the fact that the buildings were not compliant with health and safety regulations
MEC Mamabolo said the following, “It’s very clear to us that there is a problem with government buildings in the provincial government, so we are not in denial about that point. If we created the impression that we didn’t know, that would be incorrect.”
The fact is that the Infrastructure department has no property management function to speak of and is in the process of outsourcing this function.