PFA slams ANC for ‘deficiency leadership’ in Mangaung

The Patriotic Front of Azania (PFA) has accused the African National Congress-led government in Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality for its poor budget management and failure to deliver services to the community.

The break-away party from the ANC, issued a statement on Friday, 8 April where they slammed leadership of Mangaung Metro.

This comes after the city was placed under administration by national government.

According to PFA leader Johnny Maseko, “since the establishment of the metro, nothing better was ever achieved, only corruption and misrule of the leading party” Maseko slammed the ANC.

The statement further highlighted the statistics of unemployed residents in the municipality.

“Not surprisingly with unemployment standing at the record high of 315 427 citizens (36%) in the metro live under poverty line,” said the opposing party.

“Infrastructure backlogs are compounded by substandard one which was built by the ANC government and fall apart quickly like water that disappears into sand.

“Mangaung residents comprises 28% of the province’s population yet sections of the Metro’s human settlement, in Botshabelo, Bloemfontein townships and Thaba Nchu still lack power sanitation like water-borne sewage systems,” explained PFA

PFA further said that, between the years 2019/20, the metro’s budget was R1 266 billion.

In the year 2020/21 the budget was R489 billion instead of the expected R5 117 billion.

“But according to the Auditor General’s audit report the metro regressed from unqualified reports in 2016 to disclaimers in following financial years,” the party explained further.

In a statement the party, also underpinned devastating backlogs such road infrastructure, and the streets light that have fallen due to road crashes and some streets that have not been serviced for years.

“But also due to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit into the city, this weekend,  the insolvent municipality has suddenly scrabbled together funds which have been utilized to make repairs on the broke things so that, Ramaphosa must be deceived into thinking that the municipality’s infrastructure problems are either being resolved or are thing of the past,” the party said.

The opposing part emphasized that corruption and misrule of the ANC government overrule the municipality.

“A corrupt, ineptitude municipal administration that is also bogged down by factional battles not only makes a coordination of municipal activities and workforce supervision not only a nightmare but an impossibility to attain at hundred percent levels all the time,” Maseko thrashed the party’s leadership.

Lastly, PFA applauded the ANC for removing Olly Mlamleli from mayoral position, after she was accused of R250 million of the Free State asbestos scandal.