Makhura spent R5.1m on Gupta media – DA
Gauteng premier David Makhura addresses a media briefing following his department's reception of the Auditor General audit report at the Soweto Theatre in Jabulani, 24 August 2016, for the financial year ending 31 March 2016. Picture: Refilwe Modise
In the past six years, the premier’s office spent R4.7 million on advertising in The New Age and over R460K between May 2015 and August 2016.
Gauteng premier David Makhura has revealed in a reply to a Democratic Alliance question in the legislature that his office cumulatively spent over R5.1 million on Gupta-owned media, the DA said on Sunday.
“In the past six years, the premier’s office spent R4.7 million on advertising in The New Age and spent over R460 000 between the period of May 2015 to August 2016 alone,” DA Gauteng leader and MPL John Moodey said.
“The ANC in Gauteng would like to distance themselves from the national ANC and the Guptas, yet continue to fund their propaganda newspaper and broadcast channels,” he said.
The office of the premier’s entire advertising budget was well over R127 million for the past seven years. The premier’s “propaganda machinery is hard at work painting a glossy image of a premier hard at work”. However, the reality on the ground was a completely different story.
Instead of spending millions on unnecessary advertising on projects and programmes which were freely available, the premier chose to prop up his public image. It was a shame that the premier needed to spend millions on “vanity projects when action could speak louder than a couple of A5 print pieces and billboards”, Moodey said.
The DA in Gauteng would continue to monitor spending trends with regards to advertising and the ANC Gauteng’s close links with Gupta media.
“It is our hope that many more South Africans will open their eyes and truly see the ANC for what it is, a failed organisation under threat. There is no difference between the ANC in Gauteng and the national ANC; they are working together to protect President Jacob Zuma and his corrupt cronies, the Guptas,” Moodey said.
– African News Agency (ANA)
Makhura was speaking at the South African Communist Party (SACP) 14th National Congress, where delegates will nominate new leadership for the next five-year term and also decide whether to contest elections for the first time as a stand-alone party, and not as part of the ruling African National Congress alliance.
“The SACP has been outspoken against corporate state capture and these matters of corruption. The party has given the necessary leadership in mobilising various social forces and citizens in defence of the integrity of our national developmental state and the constitution which upon our new republic is founded.”
“There is no way we as progressive people belonging to a congress movement can allow a concentration and monopolisation of our country’s national resources to be controlled by a few, whether those few are black or white,” he said.
Makhura told delegates the ruling party acknowledged during its ANC national policy conference last week that they were losing moral authority as a result of being tolerant to crooks in its ranks.
“The movement must be prepared to endure insults, intimidation as well as all kinds of threats because those who want corruption to rise and state capture to thrive are going to fight back, fight back hard. We must be prepared to endure and fight until there is a movement of liberation in our country.”
The week-long SACP National Congress will discuss state capture and the fragile state of the ANC-led tripartite alliance and how it can be reconfigured.
The SACP, together with the other ANC alliance partner, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), have banned president Jacob Zuma from attending their meetings.
– African News Agency (ANA)
“In the past six years, the premier’s office spent R4.7 million on advertising in The New Age and spent over R460 000 between the period of May 2015 to August 2016 alone,” DA Gauteng leader and MPL John Moodey said.
“The ANC in Gauteng would like to distance themselves from the national ANC and the Guptas, yet continue to fund their propaganda newspaper and broadcast channels,” he said.
The office of the premier’s entire advertising budget was well over R127 million for the past seven years. The premier’s “propaganda machinery is hard at work painting a glossy image of a premier hard at work”. However, the reality on the ground was a completely different story.
Instead of spending millions on unnecessary advertising on projects and programmes which were freely available, the premier chose to prop up his public image. It was a shame that the premier needed to spend millions on “vanity projects when action could speak louder than a couple of A5 print pieces and billboards”, Moodey said.
The DA in Gauteng would continue to monitor spending trends with regards to advertising and the ANC Gauteng’s close links with Gupta media.
“It is our hope that many more South Africans will open their eyes and truly see the ANC for what it is, a failed organisation under threat. There is no difference between the ANC in Gauteng and the national ANC; they are working together to protect President Jacob Zuma and his corrupt cronies, the Guptas,” Moodey said.
– African News Agency (ANA)
Corruption a serious hurdle to radical economic transformation – Makhura
The Gauteng Premier David Makhura gives an address at the 14th National SACP Conference at the Birchwood Hotel, Johannesburg. The conference began it's first day in full session with blistering criticism of the ANC and state capture. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
The Gauteng premier says the SACP has been outspoken against state capture and corruption in defence of the country’s constitutional principles.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura on Tuesday said corruption and state capture were two of the most serious stumbling blocks to achieving radical economic transformation in South Africa.Makhura was speaking at the South African Communist Party (SACP) 14th National Congress, where delegates will nominate new leadership for the next five-year term and also decide whether to contest elections for the first time as a stand-alone party, and not as part of the ruling African National Congress alliance.
“The SACP has been outspoken against corporate state capture and these matters of corruption. The party has given the necessary leadership in mobilising various social forces and citizens in defence of the integrity of our national developmental state and the constitution which upon our new republic is founded.”
“There is no way we as progressive people belonging to a congress movement can allow a concentration and monopolisation of our country’s national resources to be controlled by a few, whether those few are black or white,” he said.
Makhura told delegates the ruling party acknowledged during its ANC national policy conference last week that they were losing moral authority as a result of being tolerant to crooks in its ranks.
“The movement must be prepared to endure insults, intimidation as well as all kinds of threats because those who want corruption to rise and state capture to thrive are going to fight back, fight back hard. We must be prepared to endure and fight until there is a movement of liberation in our country.”
The week-long SACP National Congress will discuss state capture and the fragile state of the ANC-led tripartite alliance and how it can be reconfigured.
The SACP, together with the other ANC alliance partner, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), have banned president Jacob Zuma from attending their meetings.
– African News Agency (ANA)
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