No tenders for R600m

I REFER to the above (DD May 21) headline. It comes as some surprise that there is in fact a public works department at all. With particular reference to BCM, there is little evidence of a public roads department being active at all. It is a cold day in hell when one sees any workers from that department actively attending to the pavements, gutters, drains etc. Some, obviously, and as plain as day, have not been maintained for a quarter of a century!

Considering the grotesque unemployment in the city, is it the aim of the city to not employ? Thousands of men and women are available to do jobs tending to the above, let alone cleaning up the filth that pervades the city. As for the wholesale larceny taking place by the ANC government, provincial or local, it appears that you have to be some kind of gangster within it to keep a job, any person with integrity is Fired! (Yimile Ngqele being the case in point.)

We all know that any investigation will come to nought. Nobody will be charged by the police. Nobody will be prosecuted. (properly). The Nelson (Mandela scam a case in point). Plus the mile-long list of scams that is printed every day. Those involved have no fear. Protection within the scam, you see.

No, I say, let us change the name of the Eastern Cape. Just so colonial. Lets call it gANCsterland. — Rob Prestwich