AfriForum lays charges after Free State Department of Health wastes R369 million
6 November 2018
AfriForum laid criminal charges against Godfrey Mahlatsi, Head of the Free State Treasury Department, today as part of its national campaign against misappropriation in the public health sector. This follows after the organisation studied the Department’s annual report and found that Mahlatsi was guilty of offences in terms of Section 86(1) of the Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999).
AfriForum will visit all nine provinces between 5 and 9 November 2018, during which criminal charges will be laid against the heads of each Provincial Department of Health.
“AfriForum is of the opinion that the misuse of taxpayers’ money is a national crisis,” says Joseph Renaud, AfriForum’s District Coordinator for the City of Roses.
It is time that taxpayers put pressure on the National Prosecuting Authority to make examples of heads of departments who do not fulfil their duties as prescribed by the Act. They are some of the biggest perpetrators in the misuse of taxpayers’ money,” adds Renaud.