Thousands of Social Development applications dumped in field: DA demands MEC to urgently investigate
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Free State has written to the MEC for Social Development, Butana Kompela, to demand that he urgently probes the illegal dumping of thousands of confidential applications seeking social assistance which the DA found in an open field in Thaba Nchu.
"The DA Team One SA Spokesperson for Jobs, Geordin Hill-Lewis and I were conducting an oversight inspection at the failed waste recycling plant in the area, when we made the shocking discovery of thousands of applications and reports strewn across the field. The recent ones were dated October 2018" says the DA Free State Premier Candidate, Patricia Kopane.
Please click here for a video of Kopane and Hill-Lewis at the site.
Kopane says that MEC Kompela will have to conduct an urgent investigation to get to the bottom of this matter and hold those responsible for carelessly dumping the documents accountable.
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.