The other day a weekly newspaper carried a story of one of the nine provinces in South Africa that spent R90 million expenditure on a ceremony for a political leader.
All of this R90 million was from public funds. What exactly are public funds? These are the payments that ordinary individuals make to the local, provincial and national government in the hopes that there will be better services in their neighbourhoods, improved community facilities such as community centres, swimming pools and other recreational sports fields, parks and protecting small parts of nature, roads, highways, hospitals, clinics, postal services and even refuse collection. Continue reading “Doesn’t it make you mad when you see money being wasted like this?”
