Limpopo is a mess - Limpopo "rebels" lashed as Gordhan rips into 'sabotage'
STAFF REPORTER AND SAPA JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Jan 19 2012 13:33
Amid claims that provincial saboteurs are undermining the central government's work, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has put embattled Limpopo officials in their place after complaints that the department's decision to put the province under administration was politically motivated.
At a press briefing in Polokwane on Thursday morning, Gordhan said there were people within the province working to sabotage the national government's administration process.
Gordhan has pulled out all the stops in what has fast become a public war between national government, with President Jacob Zuma at the head, and Limpopo, which recently elected Zuma's adversary Julius Malema to its provincial executive committee.
In a strongly-worded statement earlier on Thursday morning, the ministry hit back at critics in Limpopo, saying the province is looking at shortfall of R2-billion at the end of the financial year, and listing a host of damaging facts that led to the decision to place it under central control.
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-19-limpopo-rebels-lashed-as-gordhan-rips-into-sabotage
