Manuel to lead planning commission

Why is that Manny old boy??? Can't you find any experts internally??????

u mean a white experts?

UmAfrica: Get off ur race bandwagon please. Just accept the fact that there are white people in South Africa, and play a part in its development.

Manuel driving this 'seat' while wasting the TAX Payers money
On an exclusive German car and who knows how many parties and first class air tickets... with an absolute pathetic excuse???

Show me ONE ANC parliamentarian that actually cares about the poor. THEIR IS NONE!!!!!!

But the wheel will turn…

Animal Farm-1209 hopes that Minister Trevor Manual will take a class from Don Altabello’s precision and classy planning when he says “…our ships must always sail in the same direction.”

Animal Farm-1209 hopes that under Minister Manual’s watch all our resources will sail in the same direction so as to make maximum impact with the few resources at our disposal.

Animal Farm: You want the ship to steer straight into corrupt politician pockets?

'...In its election manifesto, the ANC promised to create 500 000 new jobs in 2009...'

ANC, this is another election lie which has already been watered down! The incompetents have already changed their tune from 'jobs' to ‘work opportunities’ as defined by the ILO. Refer to the below doc for a definition:

http://www.verdi.de/erwerbslose/informationen_positionen/arbeitsmarktdaten/data/ilo-definition-1-euro-jobs_pdf

…Hardly sustainable job creation.

@umAfrica African

Isnt it tiring for us blacks to play the race card everytime we are faced with a challenge. We seem comfortable covering our incompetencies, corruption, etc etc by playing victims. I wonder if thats what the people that fought for our freedom had this in mind when they were doing it. It is pathethic and needs to stop.

prof Sipho your correct, and we also need to acknowledge the level of skill white South African still posses, then we learn from them.

Genuine issues have been raised by the Green paper and some are reacheable only if corruption can be rooted out of our gorvernment and poloticians beggin to care for every citizen not5 thier immediate family and fellow comrades.

It remain a priority to all of us that South Africa, as entrecherd in the constitution should be a non-racist,no-sexist state.

I agree with you Apoc... We dont need a deluge of external experts. The truth of the matter is that SA minds have contributed to growht in other countries. Why cant we use our own. The problem with external experts is that advise based on limited knowledge of local conditions and even if they mess up no one holds them responsible. Trevor's Harvard experts (Treasury's Harvard Group) will be back with their shallow understanding of local dynamics.

Well said Nomonde Mzelemu. We ALL need to look forward, with sensitivity about our history. We cannot become a colourblind nation while we keep on throwing racial insults around.

On a positive note; It seems that ANC corruption permeates all facets of society, and actually is becoming a great unifying topic. The anger towards the criminals comes from each and every one of us who hates being robbed by those who pretend to govern - not just one race group. Perhaps, by robbing us all blind, the ANC is inadvertantly unifying us under the 'anti corruption' banner?

Sinudeity,

It would be a sad day if Minister Manuel would use all the skill in world only to take resources into the bottom-less pockets of politicians.

All Animal Farm-1209 is interested in is an Azania that goes to work like a clock-work and we hope that Minister Manuel will put good plans in place.

Talking of good plans, Animal Fram-1209 knows that whatever comes out of the Planning Commission would need money and competent people to implement.

Animal Farm-1209 is for Excellency!!

External experts are not people from outside the country but people who specialise in certain fields but are not in the government.