Passing the blame. Not understanding accountability. Incompetent. Denial. The premier is just another ANC cadre. Ubuntu is long dead.

Is the Limpopo province a joke? Yes.
Is corruption & incompetence in the ANC widespread? Yes.
Has the ANC in the past ever selectively chosen when to act and when not to act against corruption & incompetence? Yup, they have.
So you have to wonder, though I won't be shedding any tears for those corrupt ANCYL mampara's in Limpopo. At least some of the filth will get punished, better some than none.

Limpopo and Free State has had major problems for years. There was strong competition between the Eastern Cape, Free State and Limpopo as to which Province could be the most corrupt, ineffective and maladministered. With ANCYL around - aqnd with their active support - Limpopo took the lead in a race with short head wins.

Obviously the new move could cut out some of the graft of the ANCYL - and they would have to find new sources of income. Obviously the Goblin of Zimbabwe - the man with the big pain in the backside - could provide some revenue from his wife's diamond cutting business in Hong Kong to help out - but it would still be better to loot locally.

I am not surprised by the ANCYL reaction - they know nothing of efficient administration - there idea of it is how much can we loot and still deliver a small measure of services. After all a road or bridge only have to last three months before it is washed away by the first rains.
I think the fear is that investigators would identify more accurately how much ANCYL looted and Malema may yet join his black out friend - who believes that the tooth fairy drove the car that killed the children in Protea - in prison.

These people never cease to amaze me. While the ship sinks, they argue about the colour of the bung that should be used to stop the leak.

They say when you live in a glass house you should not throw stones. The Limpopo Provence started the stone throwing so they must expect people to throw stones back at them. Before they started throwing stones they should have made sure their houses was built with bricks.

"Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven said health MEC Ntombi Mekgwe had inherited the mess from the previous MEC, Brian Hlongwa"

... and her method of 'fixing' that mess was to disappear overseas on extended trips?
It is irrelevant which ANC MEC make the mess, what is relevant is that they just keep putting equally incompetent tsotsis into the same position every time.

For crying in a bucket! How does the richest province in the most affluent country on the continent manage to dig itself into such a financial hole? That takes a huge amount of talent and a barn load of thievery to accomplish

Those ( like me) welcoming the purge should be careful.

Absolutely nothing Zuma has done ever worked out for the benefit of the nation.

ANCYL must be mad what politics when the provincial account has dried up instead of blaming the premier and his MECs for poor financial mngt

She said she was relieved that the national government would help her administration deal with an "embarrassing" situation


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Embarrassing situation is what the ANC excell in. The entire ANC administration has failed. They should all be purged. A fish rots from the head. From Zuma783 to Malema.

Samsam, why do you have to tell the truth at such an inconvinient time?

It is highly unlikely that the mess resulting from all this corruption and incompetence is not real.

It is very hard however not to notice what's been going on lately and to object to article's headline.

It is also quite likely that the situation with the ANC and all their internal conflicts, problems and dilemmas has progressed and reached a stage where whatever they do or do not do will backfire one way or another. On the ANC itself, or if we are so unfortunate - on the country as a whole.

BokFan
Posted 12 minutes ago


I think my analyses is fairly,open, and transparent does nt favour any one, it rest with you what you pick or nt.

I wanted you to touch on businees perspective , instead you dwell much politically

Seems like there is logic to the madness. President is exercising what is logically the correct thing to do. These Provinces and departments (there are many more including local municipalities) are in indeed in serious financial trouble and they need to be rescued for the sake of service delivery which might affect citizens. What these incompetent officials seem to be saying is 'treasury give us more money in a form of a blank cheque and go away'. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It doesn't work that way and all of them know the rules. You cannot be given additional funding without accountability. For there mere fact that they have all overspent their normal budgets _ requires a closer look and the law does not allow them to self diagnose. In the majority of these over-expenditure cases - say 70% is due to maladministration. The Departments and officials that are asking for bail-outs are the same departments / officials that have negative reports, no financial accountability, disclaimers, etc. Surely, they cannot expect Treasury to roll-over backwards and give them blank cheques to continue their embezzling mischief. So, they are now caught in the trap like Selebi a few days ago. Very very ill and corrupt to go to jail. So Treasury is sending the guards/forensic auditors with the medication as requested. It will give forensic auditors a chance to investigate the over-expenditures whilst these embezzlers are chained in their sin-posts. Then hell will break loose after the forensic auditors have all the evidence. To smudge all this as some political ploy walla walla is a clear indication that these officials and their political handlers have no understanding of how to separate the affairs of the state and the shenanigans in the ANC. It's just plain juvenile stupidity of the worst kind. Off course Zuma may have other motives which like any astute politician will deal the cards accordingly. Only he knows. He gave us no reason when he appointed them except he had misguided trust that they could do the work and must duly remove them when he thinks they are crossing the line by embezzling public funds instead of doing their knitting whatever that is. They must be fired after the forensic audits have been completed and the law must take over, especially now that there is a more vicious, wiry wily take-no prisoners bull terrier in the President's corruption guard-yard. Very nice to see corrupt ANC chickens fly!

It is embarrassing for the ANC to tell the truth that all 8 ANC provinces are in one crisis or another. In Mpumalanga comrades are killing each other. The so called maladministration (I call it corruption) affects the poor people first, like the toll roads. The stupidity of the ANC will lead us all to insanity as we spend endless hours trying to think why a government of poor people behave like a bunch of aristocrats. In Limpopo, the YL are protesting the timing of the interventions; should national government stand aside for another 18 months for the looting to continue just because Mangaung is nearby?. These Limpopo people, including Julius, think Mangaung 2012 is the genie that will grant all their corrupt wishes. Polokwane 2007 set a very wrong precedence. The YL’s oil field is about to dry out.

"In Gauteng, Premier Nomvula Mokonyane welcomed the cabinet's intervention.... She said she was relieved that the national government would help her administration deal with an "embarrassing" situation."

In any other democracy the Premier would have the good grace to take responsibility for the mess and resign!

Not a COMRADE, no way's!

They believe that holding high office is their god-given right, no matter how inefficient or useless they are at sorting out the mess. Their shameless attitude is, "This position, fat salary and luxury 4X4 is my birthright! But do not dare to expect me to ACTUALLY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for the job, that is asking too much!"

Gone are those days when the province's were led by premiers of will,wit, and intelligence. Sexwale,Mbhazima, Phosa, Lekota et al. Today the primier's perfomance is like that of Bafana Bafana; we are not sure exactly what they are doing. They are there, more money is pumped their way but we don't know who they are and what they are supposed to be doing.

The ANCYL must start their own political party and see how long they last.

Samsam, stop defending the indefensible, the ANC are a bunch of arrogant self-serving aristocrats. They don't give a penny whether you or anyone else tries so hard to shed a light of credibility on a liberation movement that has died. The true ANC died the day Mandela made unreasonable concessions on the CODESA table. He and his colleagues sold South Africa out; they agreed to keep their mouths shut and hands tied as the separated development continues to play itself out; a decade and a half post ‘liberation’. The ANC is not a power unto itself; it’s ruled like all of us. Otherwise it would have disturbed the legacy of apartheid or gave it a good fight of its life. But no; the flag colours changed, the 4 provinces were made into 9, Voortrekker Straat became Solomon Mahlangu Street but the true ownership of SA has not been challenged. The ANC are not the big shareholders of SA incorporated, they are the security guard at the gate asking to see your ID as you enter into the SA Building.

Your imagery of the situation is much more accurate, I have to concede. Yes Blacks have their hands on trillions of assets; Eskom, Govt Taxes, IDC, Transnet, Portnet, etc and this reinforces my point exactly. How can a government that has so much in assets fail to use them to accelerate our economic growth?I am not concerned much about Agricultural land because you see agriculture only contributes less than 10% of the GDP. So my take on this one is that they have made a pact with the Devil or a Son of such a Deity, to keep ordinary South Africans in hunger, illiteracy, self sabotage and in environments that trigger criminal tendencies and anger.

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I do not think it is as dramatic as you put it" making a pact with the devil. But you are right it seems as if they have.

I think is much more mundane. Selfish naive human nature that is untrained in ethics and morals and inexperienced it what makes the world go around. A free for all. Where those; with authority give jobs for incompetent pals and family, surround themselves with intellectually challenged yes man. Kind of like placing the Jackal in charge of the Chickens. Then wondering why, true to nature, the Jackal starts eat some of them.

Are there any experienced, competent, honest, and trustworthy people with integrity within the ANC administration? If there are it is as if there are not. They are in the minority.