LETTER: Government must leave running of parastatals to business
If the state cannot supply toilets or books at schools, how can it be trusted to operate crucial utlities?
I quote from an article in the Sunday Times of December 9: “The cash-strapped SA Navy is literally falling apart and has run out of money to keep its vessels at sea.” Of the three submarines and four frigates purchased in the R60bn arms deal, none of them could be deployed in the 2017/18 financial year, “resulting in reliance on three 40-year-old vessels”. It is no longer a question of “if” or “when” our government will succeed in managing an entity successfully. They have proved their inability with everything they touch. For heaven’s sake, if they cannot supply toilets or books at schools, how can anyone expect them to operate a navy, or an airline, or a hospital, or a broadcaster, or a railway, or an electricity supplier, or an education department, or clean water, or agriculture, or a bank (perish the thought)? And the next massive failure on the horizon is the National Health Insurance (NHI). Please no, it can’t happen, it is doomed to fail. Privatise these institutions and run...
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