If only SA really were run like a spaza shop Unlike most ANC ministers, the people who run these businesses actually understand how money works
This week, as international relations and cooperation minister Naledi Pandor admitted that her department spending R118m on a hotel in New York was “an embarrassment”, it was once again reported that MPs have accused her of running her department like a “spaza shop”. This is obviously incredibly unfair to the owners of spaza shops.
It’s also fantastically dickish of the MPs who used the analogy. Indeed, if I were Desmond Moela, an ANC MP who used the spaza analogy, and I were sitting in parliament drawing a fat paycheck from the party strangling SA’s economy to death, I like to think I wouldn’t be so callous as to mock hardworking, job-creating South Africans who, unlike my colleagues in government, know which end to hold a spoon.
MPs on Naledi Pandor suspending Dirco DG: She runs the dept like a spaza shop
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In her opening remarks to a meeting of the committee on Wednesday, committee chairperson Tandi Mahambehlala said it was not acceptable for the committee to hear through media reports of Mahoai s precautionary suspension, especially when it was claimed that such action was taken as a result of the committee s recommendations.
The committee drafted a report last March after its December 2019 oversight visit to New York, where it found that Dirco had paid R118m for an abandoned dilapidated building instead of a vacant piece of land which was meant to be used to build office and residential accommodation for SA officials there.
SSA gave bodyguards to Dudu Myeni without police security assessment, inquiry hears Other political allies of former president Jacob Zuma were also given SAA security protection, says Sydney Mufamadi 25 January 2021 - 17:07 Former SAA chair Dudu Myeni was protected by agents of the State Security Agency, the state capture commission heard on Monday. Image: Raymond Preston
The state capture commission on Monday was told that the State Security Agency s (SSA s) special operations unit provided protection to political allies of former president Jacob Zuma.
In doing so, the commission was told, the SSA usurped the powers of the police, who are responsible for providing VIP protection services after conducting a security assessment.
State Security Agency gave bodyguards to Dudu Myeni without police security assessment, inquiry hears Other political allies of former president Jacob Zuma were also given SAA security protection, says Sydney Mufamadi 25 January 2021 - 16:27 Former SAA chair Dudu Myeni was protected by agents of the State Security Agency, the state capture commission heard on Monday. Image: Raymond Preston
The state capture commission on Monday was told that the State Security Agency s (SSA s) special operations unit provided protection to political allies of former president Jacob Zuma.
In doing so, the commission was told, the SSA usurped the powers of the police, who are responsible for providing VIP protection services after conducting a security assessment.
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