Bapo Ba Mogale robbed blind

[schumi]

Pretoria - The tribal community of Bapo Ba Mogale in the North West is rich on paper, but poor in reality.

And its resources - more than R600 million in mining rights royalties - have been pillaged without any accountability.

These are the damning preliminary findings of Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s investigation into allegations of maladministration of the tribe’s royalties since 1994.

Madonsela delivered the preliminary findings at a packed community hall in Bapong outside Brits on Friday where the divided community gasped as she mentioned the monies spent.

The community, like many others across the country living on mining land, is located along the abundantly wealthy platinum belt, but the only thing they have to show for it is a complete loss of hope.

Madonsela found that their account, where more R600m of royalties was held, known as D account - one of 96 such accounts in the province - was ransacked and left empty.

“What it means is that all the money you earned has been spent,” she said to the astonishment of the community.

“The paymaster who was controlling the account was the North West government.

“We established there was no trust or trust account nor oversight over this money.”

Madonsela found the largest amount - R80m - was spent on building tribal chief Emius Mogale luxurious palace locals now likened to Nkandla, President Jacob Zuma's controversial homestead.

More at: http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/bapo-ba-mogale-robbed-blind-2051351

 

[Hemi300c]

Yip you support and bow to criminals and vote for them and keep them in office and power then this is what you get.

 

[CorrieDeBeer]

Why would you expect anything else from the ANC?

 

[Solarion]

Had quite a chuckle reading this. Especially this part:

Values

The following values, which are derived from the constitution, underpin activities of the Department of Finance

Fairness
Equity
Accessibility
Transparency
Accountability
Participation, and
Professionalism

http://www.nwpg.gov.za/treasury/Aboutus.html

 

[falcon786]

The people get nothing while the chief lives in a R80 million palace. Question is are they timid and passive like Zimbabweans who just take Mugabes looting or will they stand up for themselves.

 

[ponder]

The people get nothing while the chief lives in a R80 million palace. Question is are they timid and passive like Zimbabweans who just take Mugabes looting or will they stand up for themselves.

No they are happy for the chief and believe he deserves it because he is the chief. It's a bit like feudalism, the chief holds power, in disputes he decides the outcome, he allocates land to his subjects and he can ostracise you from the 'clan'.

 

[jikajoe1]

Yip you support and bow to criminals and vote for them and keep them in office and power then this is what you get.

no wonder the continent is in a state it is in.

 

[etienne_marais]

No they are happy for the chief and believe he deserves it because he is the chief. It's a bit like feudalism, the chief holds power, in disputes he decides the outcome, he allocates land to his subjects and he can ostracise you from the 'clan'.

Have you not heard ? There is no such thing as the African way. Because in Africa cultures with their own approaches, values, ethics, norms, loyalty never came into existence and do not diverge from those of European descent at all. We are all just one big happy family

 

[FNfal]

No they are happy for the chief and believe he deserves it because he is the chief. It's a bit like feudalism, the chief holds power, in disputes he decides the outcome, he allocates land to his subjects and he can ostracise you from the 'clan'.

You forgot to mention he has quite a few henchmen .

 

[Milano]

They will have to do some appeasement here. Taxpayers will pick up the bill.

 

[HavocXphere]

And who will be held accountable? I'd expect a string of fraud convictions...

“What it means is that all the money you earned has been spent,” she said to the astonishment of the community.

The word you're looking for is stolen not "spent".

 

[Milano]

It is only fraud if they failed to grease the right palms.

 

[Spliffcat]

Africa just can't seem to make its way out of the Stone Age.

 

[grok]

Sorry for you! Viva!