It’s a cliché that the engine room of any parliament is located in its committee work. But that is what it should be. However, in the SA parliament the committee system has effectively been captured by the ruling party, the ANC, and there appears to be little chance that any “state capture” commission will arise to expose and end the resulting travesty.
How this works is both fiendishly complex and staggeringly simple. It is complex because the failure of accountability is interwoven with the consciousness of ANC MPs, resulting in a morass of incomprehension and stubborn defensiveness on their part. And it is simple because it all rests on one clear idea — that the ANC IS the people and therefore cannot but represent them in every way and on every level.
, an under-administration R30bn student finance organisation ; or of any of the 21 Skills Education Training Authorities in SA, which have little to show for their R15bn annual funding , and often receive critical auditor-general reports; or of any of the 50 TVET colleges, many of which have struggled to conform to the Public Finance Management Act; or of the R3bn National Skills Fund, which appears to have become something of a piggy bank for random use; nor of the three quality oversight...
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