R940,000 car purchase by MEC explained

[James]

Left-over funds were used to buy a R940,000 vehicle for North West health MEC Magome Masike, his department said on Friday.

Spokesman Tebogo Lekgethwane rejected as misleading a report in the Mail&Guardian that the car was purchased with money meant for ambulances.

It reported that R200,000 was taken from funds intended for mobile clinics and R740,000 from those for patient transport acquisition.

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[brendanvb]

Left-over funds? What the hell does that even mean? Do they run out of health services and programs to fund? I would think there would be no shortage of things like that in this country. Mind-boggling

 

[Ike_009]

If you are under-budget this is still wasteful since a fancy car is not even remotely related to health services. These excuses are really just getting insulting.

 

[matt]

Left over funds my ass. Flimsy excuse is flimsy.