PSA calls for a comprehensive plan over unutilised state-owned properties [SOUND]

# The Public Servants Association has expressed concern about the recent revelation by government that taxpayers have paid 65-million-rand in rates and services for more than one-thousand vacant state-owned properties. The association’s, Claude Naiker, says as of January, there were one-thousand-259 state-owned vacant lands, 207 unoccupied houses, and 830 abandoned farms that remain unallocated for utilisation. He says government is potentially losing an estimated 83-million-rand in revenue by not leasing out these properties: