No confidence in Gordhan’s opinion on Transnet pension

Transnet pensioner Douglas Mackay, Stilbaai:

I refer to the budget vote debate of the Department of Public Enterprises in May where Minister Pravin Gordhan responded to the Freedom

Front Plus’s statement about a possible settlement in the Transnet pensioners’ class action against Transnet and the government. Minister Gordhan responded by confirming that the government is indeed CONSIDERING a settlement. Gordhan said that the legal teams of the two parties must meet with one another so that they can reach an agreement regarding a POSSIBLE settlement amount - my question is, BY WHEN?

I consider the minister’s statements NOT to be positive and a step in the right direction.

I believe that a fair settlement will NOT be reached soon for the sake of the approximately 40 000 pensioners who have suffered years of poverty and misery due to the fact that the money in their pension fund was looted.

There were approximately

110 000 members when the action was instigated VERY, VERY MANY YEARS

AGO; and many SIMILAR POSSIBLE POSSIBILITIES / DECEIVING PROMISES were received by the FORLORN PENSIONERS!

In my candid opinion Pravin Gordhan enjoys undue and unwarranted faith in his capabilities and actions by billions of South Africans.

Just think - how many acts or incidents of STATE CAPTURE or FINANCIAL discrepancies and IRREGULARITIES occurred while he was minister of finance?

It is a NECESSITY that someone step in to try to appease the INHUMANE and UNDIGNIFIED ways the ‘STILL LIVING’ pensioners have to SURVIVE. If something is not done about this matter, many more pensioners are going to continue suffering until they eventually die!