Public works to go after officials who left state-owned homes in ‘dreadful state’

The department of public works and infrastructure intends to lay criminal charges and recover items stolen from properties in the Prestige Unit, some of which were left in a “dreadful state” and in one instance, used to run a taxi business.The department earlier this week revealed that, shortly after minister Dean Macpherson took office, startling revelations were made about the condition of some of the properties.The unit owns 97 state homes valued at about R830m in Cape Town and R137m in Pretoria, according to spokesperson James de Villiers.“One of the problems was some…