ActionSA Raises Alarm on Mangaung’s Collapse as Millions Lost to Overtime Fraud and Irregular Payments
Press Statement by Patricia Kopane
ActionSA Free State Chairperson
ActionSA notes with alarm that Mangaung is collapsing under the ANC’s corruption and mismanagement. Millions of rands that should be used to fix roads, provide clean water, and restore dignity to our communities are instead wasted on fraudulent overtime claims, ghost payments, and even salaries to people who have long since retired.
This is not merely financial mismanagement; it is deliberate looting by an ANC government that has abandoned the people of Mangaung. While residents live in filth without reliable refuse collection, endure constant water interruptions, and risk their lives on pothole-ridden roads, the ANC’s friends and comrades are cashing in through fraud and irregular payments.
Mangaung has become nothing more than a piggy bank for ANC deployees who treat the municipality as their personal ATM. This culture of theft and corruption has turned the Metro into the shame of the Free State and a glaring example of what happens under ANC rule.
ActionSA demands the following interventions:
Immediate forensic investigations into all overtime and irregular salary payments.
Criminal charges against ANC politicians and officials implicated in this fraud.
Suspension and removal of all corrupt officials who continue to bleed the municipality dry.
National intervention to stop Mangaung from being reduced to rubble under ANC rule.
The ANC has once again proven that it cannot govern and does not care about the suffering of ordinary citizens. The people of Mangaung are not fools—they know that the millions stolen through fraud and overtime scams could have built houses, repaired sewerage systems, and delivered the services they deserve.
Come the 2026 elections, no amount of food parcels or EPWP jobs will erase the betrayal. The people will remember that Mangaung bled under ANC corruption.
ActionSA Raises Alarm on Mangaung’s Collapse as Millions Lost to Overtime Fraud and Irregular Payments
ActionSA notes with alarm that Mangaung is collapsing under the ANC’s corruption and mismanagement. Millions of rands that should be used to fix roads, provide clean water, and restore dignity to our communities are instead wasted on fraudulent overtime claims, ghost payments, and even salaries to people who have long since retired.
This is not merely financial mismanagement; it is deliberate looting by an ANC government that has abandoned the people of Mangaung. While residents live in filth without reliable refuse collection, endure constant water interruptions, and risk their lives on pothole-ridden roads, the ANC’s friends and comrades are cashing in through fraud and irregular payments.
Mangaung has become nothing more than a piggy bank for ANC deployees who treat the municipality as their personal ATM. This culture of theft and corruption has turned the Metro into the shame of the Free State and a glaring example of what happens under ANC rule.
ActionSA demands the following interventions:
The ANC has once again proven that it cannot govern and does not care about the suffering of ordinary citizens. The people of Mangaung are not fools—they know that the millions stolen through fraud and overtime scams could have built houses, repaired sewerage systems, and delivered the services they deserve.
Come the 2026 elections, no amount of food parcels or EPWP jobs will erase the betrayal. The people will remember that Mangaung bled under ANC corruption.