"All that counts is the colour of money"

[NameOfBeast]

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Columnists/DavidBullard/Article.aspx?id=564227

In short, politicians are the worst possible people in the world to dictate what the commercial world should be doing.

Take the terminally inept Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, for example. South Africa likes to think of itself as a thriving business hub, but we are in the Middle Ages compared with our competitors when it comes to communications.

That could be sorted out with a couple of very expensive undersea cables, but Ivy has now stalled that decision by insisting that there be majority South African ownership of these cables if they are to land here.

Translation: I see lots of money here so you need to grease the right palms if you want to get this through. Illogical but, sadly, very South African.

If SA were run along business lines, it would be a simple matter of deciding on the best person for the job. In politics, old allegiances, love affairs, shared experiences and tribal loyalties allow hopelessly incompetent people into positions of power.

I doubt whether more than half a dozen of our leading politicians would amount to anything in the private sector. That probably explains their bluster and their need for large entourages of hangers-on and bodyguards.

 

[RVFmal]

Some Stick from Bullard

All That Counts Is The Colour of Money

We need more prominent people to start raising this subject. This is the only way that the consumer will actually realise how ineffectual the DoC, ICASA and Government are.

 

[Peon]

*siiiigh* It doesnt matter. None of it does. People that understand things are not right can scream all they want, it just doesnt matter. Nothing changes and will never change, and the 'clever' people have no power whatsoever to change things...

I aggree with Mr Bullard in more ways than one, particularly with shower-star jacob zuma. But nothing changes. SA government has too much power and will stay like that forever..... So this type of behaviour will continue unabated.