MEC Mxolisi Dukwana has labelled the rumours that he was hospitalised at a private hospital in Bloemfontein due to short breath and a heart attack, as false and illegal. 

His spokesperson, Sello Dithebe, says no amount of ill will will deter Dukwana from working hard to deliver Human Settlements and fix municipalities, working in concert with his ANC comrades, colleagues, councillors and communitiies.

Dithebe says Dukwana remains intact and determined to deliver on the mandate of Cogta and Human Settlements in the Free State.

“It is noteworthy that this shady, impressionistic character, was one of the few brazen hecklers at a meeting of branches of the governing party, where MEC Dukwana spoke on Thursday [8 September 2002 at the Dr Rantlai Molemela stadium-Mangaung], in his capacity as Convenor of the ANC’s Interim Provincial Committee (IPC),” Dithebe adds.

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Whilst delivering his departmental budget speech for 2022/23 in the Provincial Legislature in March this year, Dukwana assured, what he terms asbestos victims in the province, that eradication will be done in due course. The MEC referred to the failed 2014 asbestos removal project in the Free State.

"Most of these acts were perpetrated consciously to steal from the masses of our people using well-sounding populist sentiment, which was designed to mobilise our people on the basis of their sensibilities. 

"As a consequence, our government has not been able to deliver adequate houses to the people as well as purge the toxic asbestos four-roomed houses - built by the apartheid government - which caused diseases in our communities, including deadly asbestosis," he said.

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He also has on several occasions issued a strong warning to ailing municipalities and their leadership across the province. Dukwana once said those opposed to winds of change, who are obstructing the department's efforts to intervene on behalf of citizens, have no future in municipalities.

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Dukwana has also bemoaned the level of corruption and dilapidated infrastructure across the province.

Whilst addressing the ANC’s Economic Summit in May this year he revealed that a staggering R18 million was coughed up for a project that was set to build a stadium in Van Stadensrus, situated in the cash strapped Mangaung Metro Municipality in the Free State.

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