Sies for Sisisi’s creative accounting and the cat with crocodile tears
Daily Maverick · Bhekisisa Mncube ·
It’s been a wild time for statecraft as a paper trail leads us to a minister’s game, dumbbells ring for JZ, Mbalula blubs, the head of the police pulls a Terminator and Carrim does that which is haram.
Ah, Chief Dwasaho! Some, if not all, Daily Maverick readers know me as a smart aleck. A few reckon I am a bad apple, a loose cannon and an armchair critic of our political establishment. Truth be told, my leader, I am a cold fish. Nothing excites me. Not even the discovery that politicians have mistaken the public purse for a family inheritance.
Take the simpletons going gaga over former social development minister Nokuzola “Sisisi” Tolashe’s innovative economic development strategy. While the country was talking about job creation, our Sisisi allegedly pioneered something revolutionary: taxpayer-funded household groceries.
According to the Public Service Commission (service plus commission equals File 13), our Sisisi allegedly turned a food aide into a household breadwinner. A little salary inflation here, a little grocery money there, and voilà! The taxpayer becomes an unwitting venture investor of family enterprise. My leader, who needs the National Treasury when you can run a private feeding scheme through the public payroll?
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