{"id":4579,"date":"2011-10-09T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T12:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/legislature-wastes-money-on-clean-audit-celebration\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T12:47:38","slug":"legislature-wastes-money-on-clean-audit-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/legislature-wastes-money-on-clean-audit-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislature wastes money on clean audit celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop --><\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Cape Legislature is wasting money on a party for MPLs to celebrate a clean audit outcome for the last financial Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Legislature is to be congratulated on this fine achievement.<\/p>\n<p>However, why is it necessary to throw a party when obtaining a clean audit should be a matter of course every financial year?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the cost for the event, this money should be spent on providing much needed services to the greater Eastern Cape community.<\/p>\n<p>On a daily basis we hear how budget constraints erode service delivery to all.<\/p>\n<p>Given the harsh economic times we are all experiencing, the throwing of a junket party for MPLs is avaricious and grossly insensitive to the suffering masses in this province who daily have to go without lifestyle basics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dacre Haddon, MPL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editors Note\u2019s:<\/strong> If I was a chicken I would be afraid, very afraid as I see the time of the party is 13h00 on 27 October. Time to go buy some KFC shares methinks!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetBottom -->\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern Cape Legislature is wasting money on a party for MPLs to celebrate a clean audit outcome for the last financial Year. The Legislature is to be congratulated on this fine achievement. However, why is it necessary to throw a party when obtaining a clean audit should be a matter of course every financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-4579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}