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NC Finance MEC to table budget

───   CATHY DLODLO 07:08 Fri, 03 Mar 2017

NC Finance MEC to table budget | News Article
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Kimberley - Opposition parties in the Northern Cape Legislature say they hope Finance, Economic Development and Tourism MEC Mac Jack will make an announcement that will improve healthcare to mental patients when he tables his provincial budget today.


The parties believe a sure sign of improved service delivery would be an announcement about the controversial Kimberley Mental Hospital. 


The hospital has become an albatross around the provincial government's neck as its construction was riddled with problems. It started a decade ago and was estimated at R900 million, but costs have since ballooned to R2 billion. The project was also investigated by National Treasury.


DA MPL Boitumelo Babuseng, says mental healthcare in the province is in dire straits.


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