WE have to say it again: the nation is being devoured by a wolfish tendency to get rich quickly.
Nelson Mandela's Reconstruction and Development Programme has become the happy hunting ground of vultures in search of easy prey.
Instead of redressing the legacy of apartheid, the RDP is being torn to pieces by pack after pack of hounds. It seems nothing will satisfy their hunger.
They have already gobbled up a large chunk of the billions meant for RDP houses. Now they are salivating over an estimated R58 billion - yes R58 billion - needed to fix their shoddy work.
That amount is more than three times the R16billion budget for housing this year, meaning no new RDP house will be built for at least three years if the repairs must start soon.
Some are blacklisted for disgraceful conduct but still get government tenders through other companies and fronting.
You, the taxpayer, has to stop the greed.
Promises from President Jacob Zuma to the most junior officials and even threats by our leaders to deal ruthlessly with malfeasance have come to naught.
Last year Minister of Human Settlement Tokyo Sexwale promised serious expropriations. Yet we have still to hear of a civil servant who has been kicked out and seriously made to pay.
You can bet your last cent that some still munch at the public trough as if they owned it.
Until the guilty are made to pay, South Africa will continue on the road to ruin.
The guilty must pay
WE have to say it again: the nation is being devoured by a wolfish tendency to get rich quickly.
Nelson Mandela's Reconstruction and Development Programme has become the happy hunting ground of vultures in search of easy prey.
Instead of redressing the legacy of apartheid, the RDP is being torn to pieces by pack after pack of hounds. It seems nothing will satisfy their hunger.
They have already gobbled up a large chunk of the billions meant for RDP houses. Now they are salivating over an estimated R58 billion - yes R58 billion - needed to fix their shoddy work.
That amount is more than three times the R16billion budget for housing this year, meaning no new RDP house will be built for at least three years if the repairs must start soon.
Some are blacklisted for disgraceful conduct but still get government tenders through other companies and fronting.
You, the taxpayer, has to stop the greed.
Promises from President Jacob Zuma to the most junior officials and even threats by our leaders to deal ruthlessly with malfeasance have come to naught.
Last year Minister of Human Settlement Tokyo Sexwale promised serious expropriations. Yet we have still to hear of a civil servant who has been kicked out and seriously made to pay.
You can bet your last cent that some still munch at the public trough as if they owned it.
Until the guilty are made to pay, South Africa will continue on the road to ruin.