YESTERDAY we carried a story on our front page of a poor unemployed man who is a phantom BBBEE partner in a pipe supply company.
The story is worrying on many fronts but chief of these piques is the total disregard for the law that companies like Plasmeg show.
The [black] man was taken for a fool and his pigmentation exploited, all so that a pair of crooks with no respect for the country's laws could cash in on government contracts and pretend to be BEE compliant.
If the two white directors of the Pretoria-based company do not know it yet, the authorities need to move in on them and make them aware this is a crime, a serious one. Their gains must be treated like the spoils of crime and be seized by the authorities.
The bread cartels know better now not to collude in fixing prices because the law has come down hard on them. The fines of a few million rand have been slammed as the cheats will go back into business to recoup their losses. The idea is to make the business life of criminals difficult.
The same treatment should be meted out to Plasmeg. It has made millions in dealings with the government because the directors used Elliot Dhlamini's name to swindle the state.
Dhlamini, kicked out of a job he held for 17 years, is a pitiful charity case who depends on his sister. Plasmeg is to blame for the losses he incurred.
Justice will mean Plasmeg gets no slap on the wrist.
Hit hard on these thugs
YESTERDAY we carried a story on our front page of a poor unemployed man who is a phantom BBBEE partner in a pipe supply company.
The story is worrying on many fronts but chief of these piques is the total disregard for the law that companies like Plasmeg show.
The [black] man was taken for a fool and his pigmentation exploited, all so that a pair of crooks with no respect for the country's laws could cash in on government contracts and pretend to be BEE compliant.
If the two white directors of the Pretoria-based company do not know it yet, the authorities need to move in on them and make them aware this is a crime, a serious one. Their gains must be treated like the spoils of crime and be seized by the authorities.
The bread cartels know better now not to collude in fixing prices because the law has come down hard on them. The fines of a few million rand have been slammed as the cheats will go back into business to recoup their losses. The idea is to make the business life of criminals difficult.
The same treatment should be meted out to Plasmeg. It has made millions in dealings with the government because the directors used Elliot Dhlamini's name to swindle the state.
Dhlamini, kicked out of a job he held for 17 years, is a pitiful charity case who depends on his sister. Plasmeg is to blame for the losses he incurred.
Justice will mean Plasmeg gets no slap on the wrist.
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