Dear Bathabile, here's the difference between vegetable gardens and radical economic transformation
At last week's meeting of parliament's standing committee on public accounts, IFP MP Mkhuleko Hlengwa asked Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini a simple question. Her reply revealed much more than she intended to. Hlengwa asked whether Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) was BEE compliant, given that as far as he knew it was a subsidiary of Net1 UEPS Technologies, a "white-owned, American-owned" company.Then the astute EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, having insisted that CPS was not BEE-compliant, wanted to know why the minister was in negotiations with the company if she, like her party, believed in radical economic transformation. What followed was a thing of beauty — and I say that with huge sarcasm. "The issues of BEE compliance I think were discussed in court previously. I think it was raised amongst the matters of BEE compliance and then issues of radical economic transformation, that's our agenda moving forward," the minister said. "But I'd like to say," she continued, "as small...
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