JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Presidency monitoring provincial spending won’t cure looting
Constitution empowers only Treasury to enforce compliance — a Ramaphosa budget director would have no power to act
01 February 2023 - 04:38
SA politicians, especially those of the governing party, are increasingly behaving in a manner that fits British author Ernest Benn’s description of politics. Benn, who was also a politician, reportedly described politics as the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
The governing party does this, and much more. It has created multiple socioeconomic problems, and in some instances made existing problems worse than they were before it came into power. Then it often pretends these problems were created by someone else...
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