Gayton McKenzie 's office will reportedly investigate the case of a 'missing' R3 million allocated for the maintenance of the Johannes Stegmann Theatre in Secunda, Cape {town} Etc reports.
The theatre was built by Sasol in 1985, opened in 1986 and quickly became known as a world-class facility for hosting performances from all over South Africa.
In 2015, the Govan Mbeki municipality, which now owns the theatre, reported a failure in maintaining the facility and requested funding to address the issues it was experiencing.
In the 2016/17 financial year, the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture approved the municipality's request for funding for theatre maintenance.
This was approved and the Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency (MEGA) was appointed as the implementing agency.
