This is how tax money should be spent

By

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BURN

By
And so the saga continues – If it is not the mine workers, it’s the truck drivers. We have so many well paying jobs in this country that we can afford to just obliterate a few hundred or so. Burn a few trucks (some costing almost R 2000000.00), disrupt the traffic so that the rest of us are unable to reach our source of income (our jobs) on time. All the losses, and that includes the three to six hours that the non-striking road users were prevented from using the freeway, should be for the account of the strikers. Some small businesses will not be able to absorb the losses incurred, insurance companies will probably compensate for some of the damages but the hidden costs will haunt us for a long time to come. This is the part we can certainly not afford.  Damage to our international image, the loss of production, the loss of clients, the damage to the roads caused by burning vehicles, late deliveries and most of all, loss of jobs. Not only the drivers but also all those...
Read more

Twelve thousand Road deaths vs FOURTEEN THOUSAND MURDERS per annum

By
Read the headlines of the "Beeld" this morning and noticed that the "AARTO" system will be implemented country-wide as from next year. Should this system be administered well it will be an asset and will probably help to reduce the number of road accident deaths to less than the 32 deaths that occur daily . A lot of effort and financial resources have already been invested in this system and if the persons that will be appointed to make the system work are employed based on the qualifications required for the functions they have to perform , it will be an asset. To date, this has not been the case. Even I have received incorrect fines with the photograph clearly depicting a totally different make and colour of vehicle with a registration number that may be the same but being somewhat unclear resulted in the fine being allocated to me. I believe that the person(s) that have to issue fines, should at least be able to differentiate between different makes of v...
Read more

ONLY IN SOUTH AFRICA

By
It was published by Minister Richard Baloyi in our Government Gazette that Council Members – Countrywide are to receive Risk Insurance  and Life insurance, to be paid for by the TAXPAYER . This brilliant move was certainly inspired by the fact that we had more than a hundred  (113) poor- service-delivery–related riots during the first seven months of 2012.  I think it is ridiculous to fund this with Tax money – HA HA, make the people that are extremely unhappy – to the point where they are revolting against said Council members, for NOT doing their jobs , PAY even more to compensate for anticipated damages/losses and-so-on, which may be incurred by the   PERPETRATORS   of the root causes of the revolts . (Pay them for cocking things up) This is akin to a shopkeeper charging shoppers more for rotten goods , and forcing them to eat it. Salaries to Council members are already the largest cost item, leaving meagre amounts for real service delivery. ...
Read more