The Limpopo fiasco unfortunately confirms the stereotype that us blacks folks cannot manage our finances
It is only in Africa when a province elects back into office a premier who has created such repulsive results-- accumulated unauthorised expenditure which has grown from R1.5-billion in 2009 to R2.7-billion in 2011. It is only in Africa where financial management are an unnecessary competence for leaders.
I have argued in the past the masses have a very trifling collective intelligence when it comes to politics because people vote based on emotion and not logic.The Limpopo provincial government in my view should be liquidated for incompetence and voters should be demonstrating at the abuse of tax payer's funds. In fact the premier should be fired in my books.
This is another clear case of "the underdevelopment of Africa by Africans " where having caused significant damage to the public purse, the perpetrators have the audacity to hold a pressconference and claim that they are being victimised. How can that be when we hear that there was R400-millon in irregular expenditure of goods and services, mostly medical equipment, there are at least 200 "ghost" teachers were paid and there were 2 400 excess teachers in the province, that R427-million in assets had no supporting documents and the list goes on.
The management of public resources cannot be left in the hands of incompetent people regardless of their political popularity. That is exactly what happened in Zimbabwe where politics became the determining factor of who manages our resources and look where the country is.