Public Protector holds stakeholder dialogue in Cape Town
Mluleki Mrwebi
The Public Protector Advocate Thuli Madonsela is this week hosting stakeholder dialogue with heads of different stakeholders in the Western Cape
Madonsela said the focus of these dialogues is to talk about maladministration and its role in poverty and the provision of poor health services.
The public protector visited several healthcare facilities in Paarl on Tuesday.
Madonsela today held a final dialogue at the Civic Centre whereby different MEC`s talked about the challenges that their departments face on a daily basis.
Health MEC Theunis Botha said the launch of a centralised complaints line has helped to alleviate some of the challenges that the department faced in the past. The provincial government is also working towards solving the problem of misuse of ambulances.
Madonsela during her visits to various facilities in the province, she also visited some schools.
She found that there is a high rate of crime and teenage pregnancy in schools.
Poverty was identified as one of the contributors to these problems. MEC of Education Donald Grant had this to say about those challenges.
Grant said gangsters and vandalism are the main problems the education department is faced with and that has forced his department to launch Strategic Objectives, which aims to work towards solving these problems.
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