SOEs turned into feeding trough
The Citizen|November 08, 2024
The editorial, "People's lives on the line as SOE is milked", refers: There is nothing one could disagree with, but the article concludes that one of the consequences of the incompetence at SOEs is that lives are on the line.
Rob
SOEs turned into feeding trough

Actually that's nothing new. Another department of transport SOE, the Road Traffic Management Corporation, was formed by renaming the department of traffic safety as a consequence of the RTMC Act.

Like many SOEs, it took what was previously a highly effective government function, run by technocrat civil servants to a parsimonious budget, and turned it into a feeding trough for the cadres.

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