DA slams Mpumalanga Roads Department over performance
DA says their main concern is that several road projects remain below 50% and incomplete.
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The Mpumalanga Department of Public Works Roads and Transport has been accused of poor performance by the Democratic Alliance (DA).
The DA in the province says the department has spent more than R5,5 billion in the 2024/25 budget allocation, which is 96,4 % of the budget but infrastructural projects have not been completed.
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The DA’s portfolio member for Roads and Transport Teboho Sekaledi says this was revealed in the department’s annual report tabled in the legislature.
Sekaledi says their main concern is that several road projects remain below 50% and incomplete.
” It is very concerning because when we look at the spending patterns and the results on the ground where there’s unfinished projects your roads , your Parliamentary village, your Mkhondo boarding school all of this long standing headache for the province culminate from budgets that are spent or exhausted without any visible results on the ground. We have been in the legislature for two years and we can confidently say we have a huge problem in the project management within the province.”
Meanwhile, the department has dismissed the DA’s claims saying the R5,5 billion was the total budget allocation for the department. The department’s spokesperson Bongani Dlamini says the allocated budget was not only meant for road infrastructure.
“The 5.5 billion is an annual allocation for the department that includes administration, public transport, public works infrastructure, transport operations and community-based programmes. The money was not only meant for projects, however R2,5 billion was part of the allocation for public works infrastructure.”
