LETTER: Western Cape will make you eat your words, Tom Eaton
A DA government is in charge of what is in effect the only solvent province in the country, and it is delivering
Tom Eaton is partially correct. The government has shown us that it cannot or will not pay the workforce their own insurance money from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) (“Yes, the ANC is a dud but show us the money, opposition parties (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2020-08-10-tom-eaton-yes-the-anc-is-a-dud-but-show-us-the-money-opposition-parties/)”, August 10).
Eaton says the opposition “must show us what comes next”. Yet the DA has suggested repeatedly that UIF funds could be properly, efficiently and timeously disbursed by the SA Revenue Service (Sars). Furthermore, the failed Compensation Fund could turn to the private sector, such as the large medical aids or insurance companies, to ensure that the ill and injured among the workforce could be properly cared for...
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