How do you keep an ANC official sober?
You ask them to run a piss-up in a brewery.
Yesterday saw a tour of the president's residence in Nkandla, and our first real look at what R247 million can buy.
Now there was no way this was going to come out well, but if given the choice? I would rather be writing an article about how the president lives high on the hog while his neighbourhood school hasn't been renovated since the 1970's.
Instead, I have this:
Why is this worse?
Nkandla was already pretty corrupt – R200 million upwards is nothing to sneeze at and could have been spent so much better elsewhere, and given the approach taken to the president’s security one thing we can be sure of is that there are no serious threats to his life.
What the village showed us is that the ANC can’t even do corruption competently. They can’t even get bang for their buck when feathering their own nests on the public purse.
A corrupt government can see the light and try to set things right, it can at the very least produce assets which can then be sold to help make up the costs, do you imagine some rich guy living in Bryanston deciding to buy one of those Nkandla security houses as a holiday home?
And more money is going to go after the bad at Nkandla. The ANC led government will push more money at the project… and it will win the next elections anyway.
Why?
Because the ANC would not have gotten so thoroughly ruined without the majority of this country voting for it. In order to remain healthy, a political party has to lose occasionally.
Particularly when you have floor crossing legislation, which more or less guarantees that the ruling party gets the most corrupt people from the opposition over time.
And what we saw at Nkandla was embarrassing, but nothing new.
Nkandla, Nkandla, heh, heh, heh...
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