Corruption top to bottom

Civil servants are living large, and spending taxpayers money like there is no tomorrow.

Corruption in government is rampant and parastatals have become cash cows for administrators to live large. If administrators are not busy mismanaging municipal funds, they are busy with parastatals or government departments.

It came as a shock to learn that about R1 billion from the Gauteng provincial health department cannot be properly accounted for. It's not surprising that the department is in such financial disarray; that's because the people who govern us do not care about our wellbeing. Former GP health MEC, Brian Hlongwa, did his job half-heartedly while at the helm of he GP health department, hence the corruption that happened under his nose. He didn’t give a fig about the shenanigans in the department because his business were making money than what the department paid him.

Hlongwa bought a house for R7.2 million. It makes you wonder, looking at the money that cannot be accounted for by the Gauteng Health department. It seems GP health is not the only one.

The guys at the land bank are having it good spending money that was meant to assist poor farmers. In an intriguing expose (see report) of how the some smart land bank employees allegedly siphoned off money meant for the AgriBee fund to buy businesses, cars and expensive houses. Mismanagement of funds is everywhere, it was the SABC, then Eskom, corruption is everywhere in state departments. The department of correctional services has awarded a tender to a company under investigation by the Special Investigating Unit, and a director of that company was appointed national intelligence head.

The administrators and corrupt politicians are wasting our money while the government wants us to pay hefty Eskom electricity tariffs. The service delivery strikes that have hit some municipalities will surely continue as long as we are led by incompetent, corrupt leaders and self serving leaders.