The Bojanala Platinum District Municipality in Rustenburg offers financial assistance to children from poor families who have excellent academic results.

This year 25 students benefited from a total of R1.6-million.

Among them was 28-year-old Carol Montsho, a political science student at Unisa and daughter of Nkone Montsho, a Madibeng Local Municipal councillor.

According to bursary policy, children, spouses and next-of-kin of municipality employees and officials are not eligible.

An investigation followed complaints by Bojanala residents to the office of Public Protector Thuli Madonsela regarding the alleged fraud.

District municipality spokesman Archie Babeile yesterday said the bursary committee has cancelled the bursary and asked for the repayment of the money already paid to Unisa.

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Aug 8, 2012

nkomazi

Our ANC goverment is kak

I just read: Bushbuckridge Municipality fail to spend R101 millions Grant Funds.
how can u fail to deliver a stupid books and u blame apartheid
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Aug 8, 2012

Pointman

Helping poor kids is the right thing to do. But this 28 year old is neither a kid nor poor. Question is - is anybody going to get fired (or at least redeployed).
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Aug 8, 2012

TDK

Action should be taken against those granted her thae bursary. Archie, are you no longer working for SABC?
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Aug 8, 2012

Deepstick-C

Madonsela must investigate the whole of NW, there's a lot of looting going on there and the lives of community members are not improving in any way, poor service delivery is the result of corrupt municipal managers.

Probe all district and local municipalities from Rusternburg, Taung, Vryburg all the way deep to small municipalities...u will be shocked
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Aug 8, 2012

MommaC

Is there anything these sods won't steal?
How do you sleep at night knowing that you have taken an opportunity to have a better life away from a deserving person due to your greed?
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Aug 8, 2012

Voetzek

im michael jackson " speachles"
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Aug 8, 2012

Kaylae

District municipality spokesman Archie Babeile yesterday said the bursary committee has cancelled the bursary and asked for the repayment of the money already paid to Unisa.
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Thank you for this action taken and the mother mut be fired for defrauding the municipality out of greed.if she didn't have a education policy for her child is not our fault NXA talking of taking chancers on poor child was denied the right to education cause of this
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Aug 8, 2012

DrunkenMaster

Almost 80% of our Municipalities are rotten.
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Aug 8, 2012

candilious

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Morning MommaC
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Aug 8, 2012

MommaC

Morning Candilious,
Still enjoying being cold? :)
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