Voices | How the EFF plans to stop the tenderpreneurship rot
For the powers that be to ensure outsourcing, they turn to the tender process. Needless to say, the process is fraught with corruption.
This sort of thinking is ahistorical at best and dishonest at worst. It ignores South Africa’s evolution, and the role played by the state and the private sector in that evolution. And besides, paying workers directly, instead of through greedy third parties who are of no value to municipalities, makes compelling business sense.
This decision changed the lives of those 4 000 workers and their families, because they now have secure jobs and earn decent wages, while the city has saved money on security tenders. This is the version of a people-centred municipality the EFF envisions. Equally, it makes no sense for municipalities to have a directorate focused on finances and administration, with qualified accountants and auditors, but to have the same municipalities outsourcing functions as mundane as preparing their own financial statements.
This will, in turn, reaffirm the role of municipalities as primarily to deliver services rather than to make opportunities for looting available to families and associates of politicians.
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