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A newly-built R61-million stadium constructed in Mbizana by a firm linked to Eastern Cape Public Works MEC Babalo Madikizela has angered residents of the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Local Municipality. | MaliDayimani

The hefty price tag for the modest-looking facility has drawn criticism, amid rumours that the company, IPM Plant Hire, may have been handpicked for the job due to its ties with Madikizela, who is also the former Eastern Cape ANC treasurer.

Madikizela stepped down as the director of the company in November 2018 and it is now run by his wife Zona Zetu Siyazithanda Madikizela.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

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MaliDayimani Kyk die ‘entertainment’, die hanswors, regs. 🤡

MaliDayimani Kak vir die hanswors, regs. 🤡

MaliDayimani They deserve all that because it's what they voted for

MaliDayimani That’s awesome . Africa on the move. Well done. Next world Jukskei champs to be held there

MaliDayimani LOL

MaliDayimani Very nice!

MaliDayimani 😂😂😂😂😂

MaliDayimani My big Q here is WHAT is the ANC's obsession w' building stadiums that end up 0ver-priced & of No value for money💰NEVER maintained/sub-standard &/Incomplete/funds go missing⁉what sport is so more vital that R61m can be splurged💸by these ANC Connected Corrupt Cadres & Crooks?😎

MaliDayimani Proudly Endorsing the newly built humorous Stadium ,the new NORMAL of Mzanzi

MaliDayimani Can we just cut the EC out of the budget. They can't manage a spaza without stealing it empty.

MaliDayimani ECAPE-- The Province of ghosts. Ghost workers in all departments who disappear with salaries, ghosts in projects & ghosts handling millions who turn real cash into Monopoly money. And POOF!! All gone.Then millions funded for projects give us these kinds of results Unbelievable.

MaliDayimani 😂

MaliDayimani How much has gone missing?

MaliDayimani Why does the ANC keep missing the point? Now I give up

MaliDayimani Democracy is a (failed) WESTERN SYSTEM of governance. It doesn't work in SA. The system is not understood and neither are the masses informed. Oh, you think we just need more examples of ANC criminality? Okie dokie.

UrbanLo MaliDayimani Fokkers😡

MaliDayimani Typical. We have become accustomed to that.

MaliDayimani As brought to you proudly by the voters. Keep doing the same. Happy Sunday.

UrbanLo MaliDayimani Shem, we are all angered

MaliDayimani You deserve what you voted for

MaliDayimani They must stop voting for MYANC if they wanna see any change. Their anger should reflect nge2024 elections results. Simple.

MaliDayimani Useless to be angry. You voted for them

UrbanLo MaliDayimani What’s the obsession with stadiums when there are no functional schools and clinics let alone police stations…

MaliDayimani MYANC is showing is how nepptism works in action. Remember to vote for them again.

UrbanLo MaliDayimani Mbizane 😭😭😭

MaliDayimani People who take themselves as fools will be taken for fools. We all know how the ANC operates. There is absolutely no logical reason for those who do not benefit from the corruption to vote for this criminal syndicate.

MaliDayimani I feel zero pity for people that vote for thugs like these time and time again. They deserve them. Mabanye yi!!!

UrbanLo MaliDayimani Here is full story about contractors and costs of stadium

Penxenxe MaliDayimani Vote ANC and its corruption out as eastern cape and stop complaining

MaliDayimani Madikizelas have captured Mbizana!

UrbanLo MaliDayimani Ayikalungiswa into ye15mil stadium. Sekuvela le ngoku

MaliDayimani These people even showed their faces in front of this disgusting construction. I'm glad my fellow Mbizanaians are slowly waking up.

UrbanLo MaliDayimani The IPM contractor is expropriating all the civil engineering construction & plant hiring work in that part of the world. Babalo Madikizela thieves with impunity Journos must also get hold of contractors who built afresh his penthouse in EL & ask how they were paid & who paid 🚮

MaliDayimani Most construction tenders in that province are linked to him mos

MaliDayimani I have no sympathy for EC we see cutting edge week in week out and yet these fools continue to vote for the MYANC

MaliDayimani Eastern Cape has not suffered enough

MaliDayimani People of eastern Cape can you please stop....no no no cut cut. U always vote for them anyway

CoruscaKhaya MaliDayimani People are not angry enough, bashaywa nini ?

MaliDayimani Looters

UrbanLo MaliDayimani RSASIU please intervene before it’s too late and blood is on the streets of Mbizana

MaliDayimani U need to include comrade tax in the amount which is about 75%

MaliDayimani What does the TreasuryRSA Minister abt his home province? We must also not forget official opening of this R7m gravel road in one District Municipality of EASTERNCAPEGOV, home of struggle heroes of MYANC

MaliDayimani The day ANC leaves batho ba Eastern Cape alone...🤞🏾

MaliDayimani Fat and fed somebody's gonna get a real hurting. Gluttony is one of the seven sins ne

MaliDayimani Duh!

MaliDayimani Good Idea/Wrong timing Massive amount of money not well spent.

MaliDayimani eNCA SAReserveBank

Bridges, toilets and running tap water for what, stadiums will do

MaliDayimani They are not being taken for fools. They are FOOLS😂😂

MaliDayimani Is this what he meant when he said he’d go back to “business” after loosing the EC ANC elections? His business is looting state funds?

MaliDayimani “We are being taken for fools”? You are fools. You consistently re-elect this anc scum. Now sit down.

MaliDayimani Use your brains EC people, you have zero sympathy from me!

MaliDayimani Amen!

MaliDayimani Another reminder that the MYANC don’t care about you and only build the stadium to make money for themselves.

MaliDayimani And yet they keep voting anc

MaliDayimani for now the monies could be used for more important thing like food parcles or create jobs than a xxx stadium..

MaliDayimani Keep on voting for these leaches. And don't give this rubbish argument that there are no alternatives. actionsa

MaliDayimani Ityiwa nyani le Mali ngoku. Bayayi Rontontoza

MaliDayimani At least the $4 million ended up being used for something better than being in the mattress…

MaliDayimani Our MECs are such winners. Viva. Where is OscarMabuyane? Did he get a cut?

MaliDayimani Why are there always so many people in suites and oversized dresses that look like they have not done a day's work and do not have a clue what is going on. Except for stealing money of course.

MaliDayimani Get what you vote for

MaliDayimani Disgrace to our democracy!!!

MaliDayimani No doubt South Africa will fall into poverty as the 'cadres' keep in filling their pockets .. the poverty will be extreme .. much worse than now ..

MaliDayimani Black Monopoly Capital strikes again! 🤮🤮

MaliDayimani we are being taken for poes

ThembarifumoS MaliDayimani Nna I don't feel sorry for EC people they keep voting MYANC

MaliDayimani Why is the guy on the right of the picture wearing pajamas for the opening? 🤔

MaliDayimani Becuase you vote like fools.

MaliDayimani Democracy on duty,

Justsay42740408 MaliDayimani Bizana is the wild west

MaliDayimani Indeed we are very angry about this

MaliDayimani Mxm

MaliDayimani Thats what you get for naming your municipality after that cow

Peterman43 MaliDayimani This makes me so angry, PE has no water & infrastructure that should have been replaced years ago. Now in a crisis, not even enough water tankers and the spend R61mill on a stadium! Everywhere problems with elec or water or both. What on earth. Just enriching a few. Criminal!

MaliDayimani Buy you are

MaliDayimani You get what you vote for

MaliDayimani EC again a very poor province with half of its population living and working in other province but this is where ANC looting is rooted

MaliDayimani

MaliDayimani They deserve it.

MaliDayimani Funny 🤣 it's been built with $4 million 🤣 Mali ye stress.

MaliDayimani Don't forget cuttingedge and EasternCape

MaliDayimani Is a joke,this can't be R61m

MaliDayimani They deserve everything happening to them.🤣🤣🤣

MaliDayimani Imagine that! Fools being taken for fools! 🤣😂 Love how the comrades screw each other over! Stealing and grifting is part and parcel of the anc genes.

MaliDayimani Nazoo!Aphindile amaqabane

MaliDayimani Abolish the tender system,this madness will stop

MaliDayimani We all most there black child, stay focused

MaliDayimani What is the seating capacity looks small hayi shame even the unitra stadium is 200% better at fraction of the cost I wonder if it has flood lights

MaliDayimani You guys are still shocked? It's EC ANC after all

MaliDayimani 😂😂😂😂😂 Not to worry, take on another name change or something and I'm sure all will pan out. 👍

MaliDayimani 'We are being taken for fools' say the people who voted ANC again....

MaliDayimani A t-shirt and bag of Millie meal will get them back on a voting track!

MaliDayimani It's Jan Van Riebeeck's fault.

MaliDayimani MYANC you are truly just a bunch of useless, corrupt thugs. Or what do you say CyrilRamaphosa ? VoetsekANC

MaliDayimani And the the roads leading to that stadium?🤔

MaliDayimani They are not taken for fools they are fools bcoz is them who wanted Babalo to become Provincial Chairman just recently

MaliDayimani I like how the kfc sponsored lady in the middle is chuffed with herself!

MaliDayimani They cant be angered as they keep voting for this hyenas. Ziyakhala

MaliDayimani That province is full of jokes with our taxes

MaliDayimani To hell with Anc

MaliDayimani Somebody give a tender to the company her wife is director. Then you think Anc is for the poor think again. Mbeki correct Anc is a party yamasela. Even God himself can't fix the Anc its a lost case

MaliDayimani Fairly impressive too.

MaliDayimani VBS

MaliDayimani Eastern Cape people must start respecting themselves by voting this thugs out MYANC

MaliDayimani 🤣🤣🤣🤣R61m for a stadium

MaliDayimani Please can some simpleton in government start taking action against this out right thieving that this ANC regime is becoming infamous for

MaliDayimani Yet he wanted to lead EC. No shame at all

MaliDayimani Probably ate the money these ECape fat cats does this every year. Or maybe it was a donation to the ANC. Well with this dodgey government you just never know. All skelms each and every one of them

MaliDayimani Kanti how many stadiums are building in this country particularly for a country that is so terrible at soccer? When are building factories and productive infrastructure instead of community halls and stadiums? Clowns

MaliDayimani Until you stop looking kwivili enomkhonto nizobhadla.

MaliDayimani The people of the Eastern Cape love the ANC of utata

MaliDayimani It can't be Babalo..the one who just claimed of not having money in the past few days when he was contesting the provincial election

MaliDayimani Shame on the people who continue vote people who look after their own stomach. ParliamentGBV FarmGate PhalaPhalaFarm Glencore

MaliDayimani No, the residents are not angry enough. Otherwise they will be doing something about this.

MaliDayimani Spot the one thats on a diet

MaliDayimani Fools that is how ANC see its supporters Voters by the people for the ANC Gov Cadres only. ANC Voters is so dumb they keep on Voting ANC who only deliver for their own Pockets and no interest of the Voters and ANC Supporters ,No Medicine ,muti can fix ignorance,

MaliDayimani They will be so outraged, they will vote the same party in again.

MaliDayimani Duidelik duk gevreet uit drdie fondse uit. Kyk daai een in d middel

MaliDayimani Buffoon Economic Equity.

MaliDayimani Who is going to maintain an artificial turf secondly it doesn't look as if it's a multipurpose stadium hey kodwa bethuna I tenders are costing us in terms of development it's a very flawed system no matter which way you look at it

MaliDayimani Is the same guy who lost the chairmanship in Eastern Cape ?

MaliDayimani No you are not taken for fools, you are just reaping what you sow. You voted them into power knowing that they are corrupt and cant deliver, just enjoy the ride.

MaliDayimani If everyone is so angered vote out those who angered you. voteforchange2024

MaliDayimani Last year people were also outraged at the millions spent on the Enoch Mgijima stadium. Does anything ever come of this outrage?

MaliDayimani Lavuth'ibhayi. Following in the footsteps of Mgijima local municipality stadium. Ayikhale.

MaliDayimani You keep voting ANC, that means you are all fools, and the ANC knows it.

MaliDayimani Corruption and incompetence proudly sponsored by the MYANC.

MaliDayimani More ANC corruption 2024 is around the cnr…

MaliDayimani While people are starving 🤣🤣🤣🤣

MaliDayimani Tyhini jika ujonge uBabalo ikhona into ezayo!!!!!

MaliDayimani Come 2024 election amaXhosa will vote for ANC siyekeni ngalabo bayayazi into abayenzayo😂

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