Sassa blew R1.5m on party, says DA

FELICIA.MASHELE felicia.mashele@inl.co.za

The Free State regional office of the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) allegedly spent R1.5 million on a single event for International Women’s Day on March 28, in which R500 000 was allocated solely for the venue, and the remaining R1m was spent on gifts. The Free State has battled with poor service delivery by the local government. During a provincial imbizo in April last year, residents from towns across the Free State complained to President Cyril Ramaphosa about said poor service to the public. Residents said service delivery was almost non-existent, with intermittent water cuts and roads in a state of disrepair. In August last year, the manager of AfriForum, Dr Eugene Brink, described Free State service delivery as rotten due to the lack of “recent data” from…

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