Gambling board, tourism authority merged
The Free State Gambling Board and Liquor Authority (FSGLA) and the Free State Tourism Authority are set to be merged into one entity from the beginning of next month. The new body will be known as the Free State Gambling, Liquor and Tourism Authority. This was announced by treasury MEC Elzabe Rockman when she presented this year’s provincial budget at Gariep Dam on Tuesday. Rockman said the Provincial Legislature was expected to finalise deliberations on the relevant laws and regulations before the end of this month to enable the new entity to start operating at the beginning of the new…
More fraud spotters trained
The first group of public servants to be trained as certified fraud examiners completed training at the University of the Free State (UFS) last year, treasury MEC Elzabe Rockman said. Rockman said in her provincial budget speech that the first group of public servants successfully completed the certified fraud examiners course in at the end of last year with the business school of the UFS and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). That new batch, according to Rockman, brings to 10 the total number of qualified certified fraud examiners that have been added to the provincial and local government…
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Ghost workers sniffed out
The Free State provincial government has stopped the payment of salaries to seven employees who could not be physically verified in an extensive headcount of staff in five departments. The exercise which is aimed at rooting-out ghost workers within the civil service found that there were seven people on the payroll of the education department whose identities could not be established after they failed to present themselves with their identity documents for verification. Announcing the move on Tuesday, treasury MEC Elzabe Rockman said the salaries that had been paid out to those people for some time were immediately stopped. An…
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