Government to open an unfinished hospital for electioneering
Thoko Mashiane
ActionSA Mpumalanga Premier Candidate
ActionSA has been reliably told that the Mpumalanga Government is planning to open the R1.4 Billion unfinished Middelburg hospital as an electioneering campaign for the ANC.
The Mpumalanga Provincial Government commissioned the building of this hospital in 2017 to replace Middelburg Provincial Hospital which could no longer meet the demands of the residents in the community.
The alleged plan by the provincial government is that patients will be moved from the old Middelburg hospital to the unfinished hospital, when the event finished patients will be brought back to the old hospital.
This is the government’s recent spate of launches and ribbon-cutting events is part of a deliberate election strategy that emerged in the leaked audio of April’s ANC national executive committee elections meeting.
Long-term studies like those done by the Human Sciences Research Council and Afrobarometer have highlighted persistently declining trust levels over the past 15 years – and put the governing party at trust levels around the 27% mark.
Promises, PR launches and handovers on the election campaign trail are one thing. But what matters in South Africa’s constitutional democracy is consistently participatory, deliberative and quality governance.
ActionSA remains committed to upholding the principles of democracy and fair campaigning.
Government to open an unfinished hospital for electioneering
ActionSA has been reliably told that the Mpumalanga Government is planning to open the R1.4 Billion unfinished Middelburg hospital as an electioneering campaign for the ANC.
The Mpumalanga Provincial Government commissioned the building of this hospital in 2017 to replace Middelburg Provincial Hospital which could no longer meet the demands of the residents in the community.
The alleged plan by the provincial government is that patients will be moved from the old Middelburg hospital to the unfinished hospital, when the event finished patients will be brought back to the old hospital.
This is the government’s recent spate of launches and ribbon-cutting events is part of a deliberate election strategy that emerged in the leaked audio of April’s ANC national executive committee elections meeting.
Long-term studies like those done by the Human Sciences Research Council and Afrobarometer have highlighted persistently declining trust levels over the past 15 years – and put the governing party at trust levels around the 27% mark.
Promises, PR launches and handovers on the election campaign trail are one thing. But what matters in South Africa’s constitutional democracy is consistently participatory, deliberative and quality governance.
ActionSA remains committed to upholding the principles of democracy and fair campaigning.