The Sunday, 1 March episode of Carte Blanche turns the highlight on a rising property scandal in Johannesburg.
On this improvement, greater than a dozen buildings as soon as earmarked for a grand authorities precinct stand empty whereas the Gauteng Provincial Authorities continues to spend hundreds of thousands on charges and taxes.
Regardless of proudly owning these vacant properties, a number of provincial departments stay housed in privately owned, leased workplaces, costing taxpayers a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of rand.
Public outrage flared final 12 months, prompting guarantees of an investigation, but clear solutions haven’t been offered.
The programme’s investigation additional reveals that almost half of the rental funds circulation to a single enterprise empire with an extended historical past in authorities property tenders.
As officers pledge to scale back dependence on leased buildings, questions persist over why expensive new leases proceed to be authorised, and who finally advantages from the association.
Credibility amongst South African viewers
Carte Blanche is a South African investigative journalism tv sequence that airs on M-Internet each Sunday at 19:00.
Its first episode aired on 21 August 1988 and during the last 34-plus years has earned credibility amongst South African viewers for its investigation into corruption, shopper points, and present occasions.
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