{"id":964648,"date":"2024-07-07T13:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T13:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964648"},"modified":"2024-07-07T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T13:20:17","slug":"eff-calls-for-removal-of-free-state-mec-for-public-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/eff-calls-for-removal-of-free-state-mec-for-public-works\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF calls for removal of Free State MEC for Public Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EFF in the Free State is calling for the immediate removal of MEC for Public Works, Dibolelo Mance.<\/p>\n<p>This follows allegations of irregular expenditure of state coffers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s alleged that Mance spent over R300 000 on travelling and accommodation earlier this year on trips to Cape Town and Durban while travelling with her chief of staff and driver.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial EFF Secretary Bosanku Msimanga says Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae should now exercise her promise to root out corruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are calling on the Premier of Free State, Maqueen Mathae, to start acting as she has promised, is going to act against maladministration and corruption. This gives a perfect opportunity to really translate what she said into practice. So, we will be watching this matter very closely because it involves the public purse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This follows allegations of irregular expenditure of state coffers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[809,617,362,810],"class_list":["post-964648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dibolelo-mance","tag-eff","tag-free-state","tag-public-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}