Harder to get their hands on excess cash

SOCIAL Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini got her BA with honours from the University of Zululand in 1989 – in social work – which she passed with distinction. She was obviously quite bright in her younger days. I just wonder whether she would pass the grade again in 2017.

I fear she has grown too comfortable in her role as minister and as head of the ANC Women’s League. She has totally messed up the SA Social Security Agency issue, as has been pointed out quite clearly by many entities and people, including the minister of finance.

Naturally, she would not care to listen to that minister because she sees him as the spider keeping an eye over the potential web of deceit that surrounds the ANC puppets.

All of a sudden it is getting harder for the ministers to get their hands on any excess cash that’s in the Treasury.

Nowadays the spiders are more alert.

But she seems to be trying her best to emulate her boss, Jacob Zuma, by finding other ways and means of causing chaos by procrastinating and almost forcing another round in the Cash Paymaster Services contract debacle.

Just like her boss, she wants to defy the Constitutional Court and everything that is holy by just carrying on as before in a state of oblivion.

One can only feel sorry for Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, who appears to be one of the only ministers trying to keep the government ship steady.

No wonder Zuma and the rest of the Zulu cabinet do not appreciate his efforts. They cannot help themselves to plates of pie and gravy any longer, try as they may.

I am not trying to cast aspersions on the Zulu Nation.

I just find it strange so many of the people Zuma has selected for various posts are from his homeland.

People like Dudu Myeni, Dlamini and Nkosinathi Nhleko, to name just a few, have all come short in their expected outputs. But they all have emulated the giggler with the pursed lips. Brackendowns