@Swannie_DS Check @AuditorGen_SA 2024/25 PFMA audit outcomes. They show 151 clean audits (36% of 417 auditees) managed just 12% of the R2.21 trillion expenditure budget, with 88% under entities with material irregularities. Easy math.
🚨 BREAKING ALERT, SOUTH AFRICA! 😱
Only TWELVE PERCENT of government spending got a clean audit?! Just 12%?! Where on Earth is the REST of your HARD-EARNED TAX MONEY vanishing to?! Billions disappearing into a black hole of corruption?! You NEED to see this!
@RepMikeLevin no laws or regulations preventing this kind of behavior in your country? The shithole country (as termed by DJT) we live in has a judicial system which has its flaws but prevents this kind of corruption or atleast tries to do so…
🚨📍 WHY BBBEE MUST GO!
Here’s the funniest and saddest thing about how parts of BBBEE public procurement works in South Africa. 😭
Government needs to buy an X-ray machine worth around R800,000.
But because there may not be a Black-owned manufacturer or supplier with the product directly available, the system sometimes creates a middleman arrangement where a third-party BBBEE company buys the SAME machine from an existing supplier… then resells it back to government for R2 MILLION.
So taxpayers end up paying an extra R1.2 million not because the machine improved, not because technology changed, not because service got better… but simply because paperwork now says “empowerment.”
How is this sustainable in an economy already struggling with corruption, debt, collapsing hospitals and budget shortages?
Real empowerment should mean:
• building Black manufacturers
• creating engineers
• funding innovation
• developing skills and ownership
Not creating expensive middlemen who inflate prices while hospitals, schools and citizens pay the price.
South Africans we must ask itself a serious question: are we empowering people… or just recycling procurement money through politically acceptable channels? 🚨
"The world's richest men are crushing the world's poorest children." Plaudits to @NickKristof for stating plainly what's happening. We live in ugly times. https://t.co/Y9JN9uYiBz
My Brother tragically suffered a cardiac arrest last Sunday at mile 25 of the @LondonMarathon he’s currently fighting for his life in hospital. Please if anyone sees this please share so we can raise funds to help at this really tough time. @age_uk
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