Someone has to take up arms, defend & shout at the top of their voice “we are willing to die for tender processes”; especially those of Limpopo. No, Mr. President, it is not “Limpompo”!
For those unfamiliar with the parable of the broken window, allow me to update you on it:
Have you ever witnessed the anger of hard working white South African, Zillen Hiller, when her party's nemesis, the great and unstoppable ANC, hands out tenders to cronies? If you were present at such a period of her life, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact that every one of her concubines and tea ladies, were there even only 10 of them, by common consent as if living in Cape Town is the next best thing to being in heaven, offered her this invariable advice
Corruption is the rot of our society, engineered by the likes of ANC who are eager to see our beautiful country becoming yet another banana republic. What with this Protection of Info bill. They are using our tax money for their greedy, selfish selves.
This uttered before running to courts, getting the Hawks involved and calling for the big scary Public Protector.
Oh lord, were you there and saw the political points scored with whites who suddenly see all social ills as the work of the big bad and incompetent ANC. Oh the grand standing and shouting as they tell "Bokkie, pack up... we are going to Australia".
The emotions would be stirred but let’s take a moment and see it from the other side, according the Frederic Bastiat:
Suppose the “tenderpreneur”, as the guys in red call them, makes R1m after paying his unskilled labour to make a hack of the job or when some official finally decides to cancel the deal and Mr. BEE gets a good settlement from the deal – buys himself a Range Rover and extends his mansion. Let’s say, thumb sucking figures here, he spends R16 million on this project.
Is it not fair to conclude that his money created further employment “opportunities”? He can now go to the nearest Chesa Nyama (corner stores with do-it-yourself braai areas) to grow his “six-pack”. That right there is contribution to the GDP! Had he not made that money off the tender, the chesa nyama might have gone out of business.
Mr. BEE can now employ a guy or two to wash his car. Employment right there!
His massive property development/extension employs lots of labour from Alexandra township. More employment!
Am I the only one who sees this? We want things from outside akere? Ok ge Mr. BEE buys his clothing and watches from foreign retailers. Let’s say Breitling or Gucci/Louis Vuitton… they too open shops in Sandton in the Michaelangelo tower and pay their local employees. Without Mr. BEE’s tender – none of this would’ve been possible.
To add to the mix, he can now walk in Melrose Arch, diversity. With him there, more waiters/waitresses, security guards, car guards and cleaners are employed from the nearby township. Mr. Maninginingi (opulent) brings his friends who are show offs and they spend money that is the size of Zimbabwe’s entire GDP. Who reaps the benefits of the money he didn’t work hard to get? The general public.
Before you throw stones at tender scouts and these noble men, who deserve to be knighted for the good job, think about this: would the guy in Kakamaas have done this to these people/beneficiaries?
There’s more to be said on the subject but let’s be honest: our people stopped caring about education and favour tenders as a way of creating wealth and employment. If you are able to get the tender; they applaud you and root for you because they know they can beat their chests and tell their friends that the rich guy is from their kasi.
This world would be boring without the Khanyi Mbau’s of this world who specialise on teaching tenderpreneurs lessons in financial management.
We need tenderpreneurs.
