VBS: Pockets of those responsible must be turned out
8 November 2019
Patronage with the ANC may not be a passport for committing serious transgressions with impunity.
Even though the Auditor-General (AG) found that the R1,6 billion that municipalities invested unlawfully in VBS Bank will probably not be recovered, the FF Plus insists that the officials who were involved in the incident must be prosecuted and that the money must be collected from them personally.
What happened in the VBS scandal clearly proves that fraud and corruption have a direct impact on the poorest of the poor in particular seeing as the R1,6 billion was supposed to be used for delivering services to all communities
That, however, did not happen and it was widely reported that the money ended up in the pockets of, among others, certain politicians. A wealthy group of cadres benefited at the expense of the poor.