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FS in financial crisis - FF Plus

───   REFILWE GAESWE 08:46 Fri, 21 Nov 2014

FS in financial crisis - FF Plus | News Article

Bloemfontein - The Freedom Front Plus says the Free State Province is in financial crisis and the provincial Adjustment Appropriation Budget, tabled in legislature yesterday, is indicative of government's financial state.

Wouter Wessels says the tap is now closed as previous money no longer exists. Wessels says the MEC for Finance, Elzabe Rockman, conceded that the provincial departments required and requested much more funding than appropriated in order to deliver necessary services.
Listen to the interview with Wessels below. 
 
Meanwhile the DA's David van Vuuren, says the province should be thankful for the little money that they received.
 
According to him the additional R18 million appropriated to the Free State by the National Treasury offers little comfort to a provincial government on the edge of a fiscal depth.
 
Almost R590 million has been allocated to all provincial departments in the Free State in the 2014/15 adjustment budget.
Refilwe Meko/OFM News 

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