R280-million Vrede Dairy heist saga: The eastern Free State is still Ace Magashule’s empire of destruction.
Illustrative image | sources: Former Free State Premier Ace Magashule. / Former MEC for Agriculture in the Free State Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane. / Atul Gupta. | Cattle at the Estina dairy farm project. original sin site of State Capture: the Estina Dairy Farm
Decay is visceral on the roads, making one see what happens when governments go wrong. I’ve learnt that you can feel corruption when visiting Eskom, Transnet, and other sites of capture. There is a lethargy of people and place when an institution is repurposed for taking from rather than giving in service to the country. So, it is in the Free State.
In April 2024, I’m in Vrede to see what happens when State Capture is caught, bound and reportedly ended. The Vrede Integrated Dairy Project’s grand brick entrance is familiar. This is because journalists beat a hot trail there to hear the stories of Dhlamini and other farmers. They were told by then Agriculture MEC Mosebenzi Zwane to sell their cattle. “The locals were taken for a ride,” the State Capture Commission report found.
Criminal syndicates operated in the Free State, fleeced the State and collapsed services – ANC political report “A dairy farm doesn’t shut down and go to sleep. It has to be fully staffed every day. It’s like being a nurse or a police officer. You’re always on,” says the dairy farmer, which suggests it is not being optimally run.
When you go through the auditor-general reports for the Free State municipalities, wasteful expenditure runs to the billions of rands each year. Budgets of this size, if wisely used, should have catalytic growth effects on provincial economies.festoon poles across the province as he contests the elections under the banner of his start-up, the African Congress for Transformation. In his stump punt, Magashule’s legacy in the Free State is of a thriving place which still needs him.
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