Limpopo CONTRALESA on the national government failure to provide food and textbooks

The CONTRALESA in Limpopo has learnt with great shock and disappointment the failure by the National Government to provide basic services such as food and textbooks in our public schools and hospitals in our province, Limpopo.

We are concerned that since the questionable and ill-informed take-over of the 5 provincial departments by the National Cabinet government, the provision of services to our people in Limpopo has deteriorated to disappointing levels. This is contrary to the rhetoric by the national cabinet that the intervention is meant to assist the provincial administration. 

Before the National Cabinet take-over, all schools received textbooks on time. Patients in hospitals and our pupils at schools were well fed, which clearly shows that it is the National Cabinet which is incapable of leading and managing our government.  The National Cabinet has put almost everything to a standstill by ensuring that service providers are not paid despite the fact that money is available to do so.

We call on the National cabinet not to play with the future of kids and lives of our people in hospitals in pursuance of their political agendas against the Limpopo ANC Provincial leadership in government.  For this reason, we call on the National Cabinet to immediately provide textbooks to our schools and food to our patients with immediate effect. Failure to do so, we will have no option, but to mobilize our rural communities to march to Pretoria and demand explanation from the state President, Jacob Zuma on why Limpopo is treated in this unfair manner.

The National Cabinet must stop playing cheap and factionalist politics over the lives and education of our people.  Limpopo has been taken for granted and treated with disdain by our national cabinet. Enough is enough! 

Statement issued by CONTRALESA Limpopo Spokesperson, Cde. Mohlabana, January 19 2012

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