The provincial chairperson for ActionSA, Patricia Kopane, said the Free State has become the face of corruption, with numerous incomplete projects that were only created to enrich the ANC cabal under her watch. 

Kopane said nothing has been done to date with the asbestos houses that are detrimental to people’s health, a project which cost the state R255 million. She also mentioned that the R260 million Silver and Dark City Housing projects remain incomplete and further stated that the Kopanong, Matjhabeng, Maluti-a-Phofung, and Mafube Municipalities are tales of a failed government, as people are without water, sanitation and employees are not paid their salaries. Kopane has since called for Ntombela to resign.

“Ma Ntombela should do the noble thing for the Free State and resign as the premier. She should not wait for the removal by the ANC. She has done nothing to improve the lives of the Free State people. What is of paramount importance is that Free State residents have lost confidence in her ability to run the province, to give them opportunities to grow, to develop and break the cycle of poverty. 

"She inherited the province in its worst condition but she did nothing to reverse the damage and improve people’s lives, instead she continued in Ace Magashule’s footsteps. She failed dismally as a premier, and her legacy is of unfulfilled promises,” said Kopane.

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Mangaung Concerned Community (MCC) spokesperson, Themba Zweni, also called for Ntombela and her collective to resign immediately and said the ruling party has to appoint a decisive premier who is going to fix the provincial government, as well as provide the necessary support to the local sphere of governance.

Ntombela and her seven MECs failed to make the list of the newly appointed ANC Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) members. 

Meanwhile, during the PEC Lekgotla held in Ilanga Estate over the weekend, Jabu Mbalula, who is the brother of the ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula, was appointed as the ANC PEC spokesperson. ANC PEC Provincial Secretary, Polediso Motsoeneng, announced that changes are imminent.

“We are on a political rollercoaster. It means we are about to undergo sudden changes in a very short period of time and those changes, some of them will be extreme in nature. As a result, I have indicated that what constitutes what must happen in the next 13 or 14 months, must be action-orientated programmes that will benefit our people and nothing else,” said Motsoeneng.

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