EDITORIAL: RAF’s taste for impunity a bad omen in government
State institutions increasingly seem to be sending this message to taxpayers: give us your money when we want it, but don’t expect anything in return
20 December 2023 - 06:00
If one theme has risen above all else in South African political governance over this past decade, it’s the thinly veiled attempt by state institutions to keep extracting higher rent from taxpayers, while weaselling out of the responsibility to provide anything in return.
The most obvious culprits include state utilities such as Eskom (whose prices have risen 450% since 2008, despite providing less power than ever), and crumbling municipalities which charge rates that bear no relationship to the “service” provided. ..
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