We know there is an iceberg, in fact, we've been in Rocky territory for decades. We will hit the iceberg, we can't expect the same people who got us here to get is out. It's like asking a robber to un-rob someone.
Estada 4 days ago ANC and their MK and EFF friends must go. We had enough of their theft and racism
Boer Slayer Estada 4 days ago Mk and eff are not even in charge. What kind of Swart gevaar level is this?
Estada Boer Slayer 4 days ago ANC are not the majority party either but they still act like they didnt lose the election.
Its like being fired and you continue going to work as if nothing happened
Ferder SBV Boer Slayer 4 days ago Exactly my thoughts but they so used to drinking their own Coolaid that it's normal to them and they believe themselves to be the most virtuous people the world has ever see despite a well documented track record to the contrary. When will Trump take them across the pond so we can be free of this virus called racism
Ferder SBV Estada 4 days ago Yes and when will you get tired of private sector theft or is price fixing, collusion l, currency manipulation, tender fraud, accounting irregularities ok?
DA itself has been fingered in a few scandals of its own yet you seem quite selective in your outrage. Or is it only blacks that can be corrupt?
Estada Ferder SBV 4 days ago edited Private sector doesnt make laws.
Private sector doesnt take my money by force and give me nothing (sars).
Private sector doesnt run the judiciary and release k/llers on R300 bail.
Private sector isnt starting fights with other countries.
Private sector isnt funding terrorists with my tax moneyNasdaq5088 Ferder SBV 4 days ago edited Price fixing? You tax the highest in the world and expected small business competion to rise to bring prices down....! The private sector consists of small, medium and large businesses, you have created the worst business trading environment on earth....
Oliver 4 days ago The root of the issue is that the money collected is not actually used for anything at all and lost to corruption.
I think the government actually collects plenty but it's never effectively utilized but rather is squandered and pissed away into the hands of a criminal network they helped build.
You cannot hope to fill a collinder by adding more water.
If the government was able to streamline it's expenditure and reduce losses or bad tenders, corrupt deals, and lazy unproductive workers and departments we'd be rocking it.
Unfortunately they won't. At this point I'd be able to help more people, my local community and the economy better if I kept my taxes and allocated them to mini projects and funds locally.
The government cannot be trusted with my tax money anymore. One gets tired of paying taxes only so they can waste it and then still help out the people we hire because they are not getting what they should from the government institutions.
Wizzler Oliver 4 days ago edited With the VAT hike no longer happening, the next item on the agenda is that the DA is expected to pursue a Spending Review. So, appears the ANC is entering a new phase of forced accountability and associated consequences for wrongdoing. Expect more posturing and delay tactics from the ANC to thwart these efforts.
Anton Cronje 4 days ago Enough with the PC talk Mr Roodt. The funds are not lost, they are stolen. Call a pig a pig. We can't be fooled anymore. Doesn't matter how much lipstick you put on it.
Blapartheid Zulu censored agai 4 days ago It's broken a long time ago it's currently held together in scraps by minority tax payers. It's not holding on and people are drowning. Mandelalism is adding more weight saying this will solve the sinking. Mandela effect.
Charles Butcher Blapartheid Zulu censored agai 3 days ago The Shit started in 1994,thanks to mandela and the thieving band of cANCer in governmunt. Never has a country with soo much promise been looted soo totally
In Comfort Sbu Dube 3 days ago Common sense and Economics are two rare commodities among some people.
Pieter Richard Erasmus 4 days ago The ANC is the problem, corruption to many unnecessary employees demanding a increase every year and just getting it for free doing nothing just stealing more. Workers being suspended full pay for years, running to court the government everytime things dont go their way and who pay their stupidity. The ANC need to go,Malema and Zuma need to go, just like APARTHEID its gone but they keep on blaming the whites for their stupidity, the WORD WOKE UP ASK TRUMP, when are the people voting for them going to wake up ????
Things are changing and thank the DA for that , ANCare the thiefsMovingthegorgonzolaback 4 days ago Again I think the minister can't just can it can he? 15.5 is in place. The 15 has to be voted in by the honourables in Parliament?
Nasdaq5088 4 days ago edited List ALL SOEs on the JSE, but if you want a quick fix start selling government assets.... Just to get through the year...stop hiring in government, retrain current employees......plus sign trade deals, lower taxes.....
Shift Post 4 days ago The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire
We don't need no water, let the motherf@#ker burn
Burn motherf@#ker, burnTony 4 days ago What do you expect when just about every cabinet minister from the anc is guilty of malfeasance, corruption and gross incompetence, they keep employing and shuffling around the unemployable
Red_Baron1234 4 days ago That is the problem, a smaller tax base can't support a trough that grows bigger every time and do not contribute anything. Majority people of SA on grants and freebies and then you have most of them lying on their backs making babies to get child grants. As they follow China the racist should follow China's previous laws of limiting children.
Mike Wiggill Red_Baron1234 2 days ago The worst is that they use whatever money they do not steak to grow their voter base, while chasing away and shrinking the tax base
Mike Wiggill 2 days ago “What can be done to improve government efficiency?"
Replace government is the answer, as they have only become progressively worse over 3 decades.
The problem is political. If we did get rid of ANC government it would only be replaced by something much worse, such as EFF and MK.
The voters are the problem , made worse by the ridiculous PR and "List" system of elections. Then we have the terribly low average IQ, the high rate illiteracy (no, not being unable to read, but being unable to do so for meaning) Combined that leaves the vast majority of voters incapable of critical thought and reason.
Even lower than the literacy rate is the financial literacy rate. Then we have the economic literacy rate, which is so low it cannot be measured. (That includes those the population votes for)What hope is there when those are the ones voting for the government, with their demands for freebies and handouts, and a government remaining in power by being populist.
Even if they were ousted there are a multitude of other populist parties - such as EFF, MK, and wayvtoo many "2 men and a dog" parties standing in line for their spot at the feeding troughs.
So, the answer is that we are beyond hope. It simply remains a case of how fast does the country disappear down the sewer