He said that, despite his own office and other departments being under administration, “we’re gradually showing relative stability in the province”.This was after the opposition, the EFF and the DA, constantly raised points of order during the proceedings, questioning his legitimacy to deliver the address when his departments were under administration.
The latter was removed amid allegations of corruption and maladministration on his watch at the expense of service delivery, which led to widespread violent protests.This resulted in him reshuffling his cabinet as he embarked on a journey to rebuild the provincial administration. Mokgoro added that the province was “on the mend”, and made an appeal for everybody to “redouble efforts to permanently confine the North West of 2018 to the past, never to be revisited”.In his first, as well as his second Sopa last year, Mokgoro said there were “criminal investigations emanating from alleged theft, corruption and the contravention of the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Activities Act of 2004”.
He also said in June last year’s Sopa that 31 forensic investigations were under way, with 21 of them relating to provincial departments and 10 to municipalities.After two attempts by City Press to get Mokgoro to explain his involvement in the controversial donation of game worth about R100 million to some politically connected individuals in 2015, which did not succeed, the question was posed to him in person at a post-Sopa press conference on Friday.
“What the portfolio committee took issue with was the question of beneficiaries ... the matter has become a subject of discussion by the portfolio committee,” he said. “If you don’t want me, say it. I will pack my bags and go, but you must do it within the constitution of the ANC and of the country.”
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