Gauteng: Social Development MEC Steals R350 000 From The Poor

Kgaogelo Lekgoro might wear a suit but he is an ignorant black thug like all the rest of them.

As MEC for Social Development in Gauteng province, this waste of space took it upon himself to steal R350 000 from the department.

He closed the department at noon on Friday and used the money to send 1 600 women staff members for a spa treatments and dinner at the Emperor's Palace Casino in Kempton Park.

NGO's and the public trying to get hold of the department by phone on Friday afternoon got no answer. When one irate caller from an NGO phoned, someone did answer on the seventh attempt. He told her all the women had gone to the casino for "spa treatments and dinner".

Department spokesperson Fred Mokoko told IOL, "The event was requested by the MEC Kgaogelo Lekgoro. It is to honour all of our women in the department for their contribution, in honour of Women's Month."

The province's budget is meant to provide for, amongst other things, child care grants, old-age pensions and low-cost houses.

Meanwhile refugees from Zimbabwe and from rural South Africa pour into Gauteng's squatter camps and protests in Gauteng black townships against "poor service delivery" continue unabated.