Joburg’s adjustment budget includes funding for plan to stop drug abuse
The member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for finance in the City of Johannesburg‚ Funzela Ngobeni‚ has presented an adjustment operational budget for the 2017-18 financial year for the metro‚ prioritising housing and social development, among others. In the adjustment budget‚ the city’s department of social development received R16.7m for the advancement of Johannesburg much-needed antisubstance abuse programme. "We are starting local drug action clinics. We are giving the MMC [Mpho Phalatse] money so that she can … open some of these clinics. In fact‚ one of these clinics will be opened early next week. This is aimed at completely eliminating drug substance abuse in our community," Ngobeni said. "We believe that the clinics will bring much-needed care to our poorest communities and hope for a better life for those who fall victim [to] substance abuse. In addition‚ another R1.2m is allocated to the department of social development for it to acquire equipment needed to run the free ...
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