How Easy ir is to Spend Taxpayers' Money

 

How easy it is to spend taxpayers' money! Suspend a 'worker' for 2 to 10 years on full pay, and then give them a golden handshake. Of course, governments, and particularly Ministers and Presidents, know that the supply of funds from taxpayers is inexhaustible. Until it stops! And even then, they continue to dream, funding their insanities with borrowed money - essentially spending the tax in advance - until reality hits, and then they blame everyone, establish commissions to find excuses for what went wrong, and explain to the voters that they have to wait for the reports, three to five years down the road, before they can fix the problem they created, in the full knowledge that they will create new problems to distract the voters when that time comes. And still they continue to dream!
Ramaphosa bewails the fact that South Africa has not overcome racism, 26 years after the ANC instituted its program of neo-racism, and demands that the Whites accept that BEE, Expropriation without Compensation and downgrading of government's capabilities by cadre deployment, be seen as both necessary and good. The real reasons for the woeful economic performance of the economy under Ramaphosa are BEE, which ensures that any White with skills and ambition goes elsewhere, to a country which values contribution without regard to skin color, Expropriation without Compensation, which ensures that no investor will put his or her money into a gamble, hoping that the government will not see the temptation to enrich its members or buy votes with it, and cadre deployment, which ensures that the civil service is both bloated and overpaid, without delivering any value to the people they 'serve'. Add to that, the fact that the President is a dedicated racist (remember that he propounded the theory at the time of negotiating the Constitution that the best way to get rid of the Whites is to subject them to increasing pressure, to heat the water until the frog jumps out?), as well as an incompetent manager, who learned the words but did not understand the theories and practice behind them, while he 'served' as Director of large corporations, who bought him as a reliable link to the ANC to get things done when and how they needed (remember Marikana?) It is glaringly obvious that Ramaphosa is neither an effective leader, never making decisions until he sees which way the NEC will jump, nor an effective manager, allowing his Ministers to run around like headless chickens while he boasts of 'performance agreements', which have no quantified targets, no rationale (remember the insane regulations about buying open-toe shoes, tee-shirts, discouraging the development of e-commerce, which has been an economy-saver in other countries but in South Africa is considered to be unfair to other retailers, and banning the sale of cigarettes because the 'infection is spread by sharing cigarettes', totally ignoring the other pandemics of AIDS - strongly promoted by the ANC under Mbeki, TB and half a dozen others).

Ramaphosa, and whoever replaces him when NDZ and Ace win the fight, should understand that the conflict in South Africa is the direct result of joblessness - easily over 50% and getting worse - and low investment. Poor people look for scapegoats, and the ANC is very good at pointing the finger at the Whites, who founded, funded and operate the vast majority of businesses that provide the few economically-active, i.e. non-government, jobs (because that is what you do when you gain experience by working your way up in the organization, and what you can’t fo when you have ‘earned’ your fortune by holding an overpaid job (gained by the color of your skin and having political connections, while hiring consultants to do the work you are paid for, while not gaining the experience and skills that come from working your way up the organization).

The ANC has ensured that this pool of skills leaves for better pastures, citing ideological reasons. Unfortunately, people cannot eat ideology, as the Communist bloc found to its horror. People need jobs, prospects for improvement that they can achieve by effort and training, and hope for the future. Ramaphosa cannot offer these.