{"id":472781,"date":"2010-03-25T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-3526487740566596839"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:23:16","slug":"guateng-premier-speaks-on-whats-behind-financial-woes-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472781","title":{"rendered":"Guateng Premier Speaks on What’s Behind Financial Woes in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guateng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane in the Republic of South Africa.<\/a>
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Whites cause Tshwane\u2019s financial woes: Mokonyane<\/p>\n

Mar 12, 2010 6:16 PM
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Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane\u2019s statement that Tshwane\u2019s financial problems are largely a result of defaults by white ratepayers was based on fact, spokesman Dumisani Zulu said.
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Zulu said the premier\u2019s knowledge was based on a report done by the municipality. Reacting to Mokonyane\u2019s Thursday comments, the Democratic Alliance said: \u201cShe is being a divisive factor in our province and she is undermining nation building and promoting racism through her comments, so she must prove it\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe race card is always shown when the ANC does not have answers to a problem. The easy way out is just to blame the \u2018whites\u2019 and avert attention from the real problems,\u201d the DA said in a statement on Friday. <\/p>\n

Zulu said however, that it was \u201cunfortunate\u201d that rate payers were predominantly white. He said Mokonyane\u2019s statement was reflective of [Cooperative Governance] Minister Sicelo Shiceka\u2019s statement that Tshwane was \u201cvulnerable\u201d. <\/p>\n

Mokonyane reportedly told a Pretoria Press Club that \u201cthe City of Tshwane does not deserve to be what it is today because it has a turnaround strategy but has not been able to implement it\u201d. <\/p>\n

According to Mokonyane, a large number of predominantly white rate payers\u2019 associations in the Tshwane metro were not paying for services. <\/p>\n

They were rather putting their money into trust accounts and this, she said, was rendering the municipality dysfunctional. <\/p>\n

She said some of them were even deliberately withholding payments. She urged residents to work closely with government. <\/p>\n

The DA challenged the MEC to prove her statements, saying it believed Mokonyane was being \u201ceconomical with the truth\u201d by blaming one population group for what is essentially the ANC\u2019s failure to properly manage the Tshwane Council.
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Guateng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane in the Republic of South Africa.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Whites cause Tshwane\u2019s financial woes: Mokonyane Mar 12, 2010 6:16 PM ——————————————————————————–Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane\u2019s statement that Tshwane\u2019s financial problems are largely a result of defaults by white ratepayers was based on fact, spokesman Dumisani Zulu said. ——————————————————————————– […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}