DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT ON FISCAL FRAMEWORK, March 2 2010

"The SACP is partially correct when it says that the problem with corruption in South Africa is not fired on by a moral but of a system driven substructure. It is the system substructure in South Africa which was created by the ANC's policies of BEE, affirmative action and tenders for friends and people with the right political connections, which allow South Africa to disappear in this quagmire of corruption. It is within these realities of this system in which the government's fiscal framework should be judged," Dr. Corné Mulder, FF Plus chief whip says.

"Year after year billions of rand are voted through Parliament to make a difference in South Africa . These enormous amounts of mainly taxpayer's money are annually approved and spent on projects and programmes but on grassroots level the decay increases daily. Somewhere there is a very big hole in this dam. The current recession with the government's smaller tax income has not only forced the ANC government to go and borrow so much more money, but it has also let the spotlight fall on the enormous corruption problems in South Africa. A problem which has been caused by the ANC government's own policy framework. When the ANC comfortably ensconced itself with a Chancellor House project in order to line its own pockets, the example is set for the ANC controlled city councils to allocate their tenders to the "right people", such as Malema's SGL Engineering Projects, whether they know anything about road or bridge building or not."

"Think how well South Africa would have fared and how great the fiscal framework would have been if South Africa was not burdened by the brakes of:

1. Affirmative action, where the best qualified person does not fill a position, but rather someone who, although he can not do the work, still qualifies on the basis of race;

2. BEE, where the best and most skilled companies do not necessarily obtain contracts, but the company which can prove that it is black enough; and

3. Where "tenderpreneurs" flourish and millions of rand are annually awarded to companies who have the so-called correct political connections, whether they can do the work or not."

Statement issued by Dr. Corné Mulder, FF Plus Chief Whip, March 2 2010

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