EN PASSANT
LAVISH overseas trips – mere holidays with no benefits for the country and at taxpayers’ expense – are unacceptable. If many state-owned enterprises were investigated, the rot that’s eroding our finances would be revealed.
The standard of theft set by the bigger boys in the government has filtered down to the lower offices.
This country is bleeding from government workers’ waste and theft, most of it “team work”. One such example is the inflated prices charged for repairs on government vehicles. The figures are shocking.
All this is due to a lack of proper controls as well as “politicians” who have no experience in financial management or how to run a council or state-owned enterprise. Rustenburg AS TWO people in the latter years of our lives, my wife and I require a few medicines to keep us functioning. This requires us to attend our doctor’s surgery to collect said muti.
If all medicines were packed in a sensible manner, 30 tablets or doses of the muti per packet, we would be required to attend the doctor’s surgery once every month. But no, some medicines are packed in 30 to the pack and some in 28 to the pack.
This is obviously good for the medical industry as you are thus required to attend the doctor’s room twice a month. Medical aid is an expensive luxury for pensioners. The pharmaceutical companies could assist by packing all medicines in packages of 30. Or is that just too simple? Oakdene THIS is not the first time Roy Moodley is making the news.
In August last year, it was revealed that Siyangena had channelled payments in excess of a staggering R550 million to companies owned by Moodley, a politically-connected businessman from Durban with close links to President Jacob Zuma.
It is revealed that Zuma pocketed R1 million a month from the controversial tender mogul without declaring it to the South African Revenue Service.
And who can forget Vivian Reddy who won numerous tenders not awarded through the usual processes?
What about blatant cronyism towards Willy Govender, the owner of eValuations, the company that endeared itself to Johannesburg’s wealthiest residents by under-valuing their properties to ensure they paid little or nothing in rates and taxes? He is a member of KwaZulu-Natal’s esteemed Teflon Club (chief patron: Zuma).
The ANC backing system in Durban has created a wealthy elite whose functioning is subject to ridicule. Sandton