Thank you very much, Chair. Minister, will the government consider abolishing tenders for good governance because up to date, since 1994, the manner in which the tenders are designed, they are only designed only to benefit a few in societies with meagre salaries that are given to workers resulting in this R240 billion tender fraud that could not provide a permanent work.
So, how the Minister is going to put measures in place for government to do away with tenders so that we deal with the issue of unemployment permanently in South Africa? Thank you very much.
The MINISTER OF CO-OPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL
AFFAIRS: The Minister of Finance ...
IsiZulu:
... ungibuka kabi njengoba ngisukuma ngakhoke ngeke ngize ngiwuphendule lowo mbuzo.
English:
But let me say that where tenders are done wrongly, this must be addressed. The important thing in the District Model ... [Interjections.] Let me finish. The important thing in the District Model is really to ensure that we have people who can do the work in the district. Once the District Model works, we will not have municipalities getting consultants or service providers doing tenders even for Integrated Development Plans, IDPs, even for their financial reports, even for all these things just doing tenders. We want them to have capacity to do it internally. That's the first thing.
But of course, if there is a big bridge in the N2 that needs to be built then they cannot do that. Local
government will have to get a company that can do that. But it should be done properly. And also, if we train people in the district, they can provide a lot of the services. Even in the existing companies, for instance,
if there is an auto company, the government is saying young people should be trained to provide the spares. The spares must not come from all over the place. There must be manufactured here by small companies that then feed to the big companies.
So, the important thing is to ensure that we have small and medium enterprises that do the work because if we don't do that we will end up with this kind of situations, and also train our young peoples so that their skills addressed what the economy needs.
I agree with you that, you can't give me a tender to provide SAA with aircrafts.
IsiZulu:
Ngazini ngalokho?
English:
If I get such a tender, it's wrong. That kind of tender that can be given to me to buy aircrafts for SAA will not be good for me. Thank you.