ANC must pay for imported Cuban engineers and send them home
20 April 2021
ActionSA has confirmed news reports that the South African government has imported Cuban engineers to address infrastructure problems in South Africa.
In doing so, our government has added insult to the injury of the R400 million spent on imported Cuban doctors to combat the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa.
What makes this story so outrageous is the fact that the combination of 3 facts.
Our government has failed to maintain, repair and renew the infrastructure in South Africa creating an infrastructure crisis. In the City of Johannesburg, when I became Mayor in 2016, there was a R177 billion unfunded infrastructure backlog. Country wide this is a feature of tenders being seen as the ringing of the dinner bell for corrupt ANC cadres. After just concluding the Hammanskraal Water Hearings, which spent R295 million on the Free State asbestos project company owned by Edwin Sodi.