DA shut up infrastrcture development isnt you initiative , you know nothing dont claim as if you know more whereas you did nt prioritise it in your programmes or raised it in the parliament , now you rush to pretend as if its something you were raised

Scrap the social grant for kids all together.

How about we just applaud when a plan is good and just hope that it will actually take place with minimum corruption or no corruption at all (as impossible as that seems)?

I see no difference whether the Min of Fin announces a R200 mill or R2 trillion infrastructure spend because:

1. The higher the budget the greater the room for manoeuvre for the corrupt syndicates to transfer even greater funds into their private bank accounts,

2. Infrastructure spending should correlate to the country’s size and long term objectives, and not merely seen as a tool to smooth the unemployment numbers and to boost the civil engineering industry’s order book,

3. The public works department’s ability in terms of skill and competence to roll out massive infrastructure projects should be a key consideration prior to overloading them with work whose quality will later be questionable.

4, The proportion of infrastructure funds spent on smaller civil engineering firms should be one of the fundamental key performance indicators that becomes reported to Parliament as smaller business have proven to have larger appetites for labour, skills transfer and empowerment. Larger firms (civil engineering) are subjected to various red tape that render them unable to hire and boost their human resource department with flexibility.

5, The all-consuming question of government department’s inability to spend their allocated budgets should firstly be answered before large funds are approved for capital spending. The issue could arise because staff are hesitant to deploy the funds in innovative projects because of fear of being seen as ‘corrupt’ by the national government or media. This fear has halted many spearhead and ground breaking projects and has resulted in many departments to just do their job and keep out of trouble.

6, Another question that needs to be asked is how are our national budgets prepared? Are they not prepared based on concrete projects and ideas that have already been considered and approved by the Min of Fin? If this is the case then we should not be in a position of under spending and the Min of Fin should be more than able to present the successes of such projects in the following year’s budget speech.

Well you can't please all the people all the time.