A dumping ground is described as a place where unwanted people or things are sent. So it is with South Africa's premier dumping ground, parliament, where previously employed disgraced party hacks have and will be deployed to willingly do the bidding of Luthuli House.
In the real world disgraced party hacks are deemed unfit to hold public office. Not so with the ANC government. When incompetence, corruption, or self-enrichment are exposed, party hacks are elevated to other positions, or if conduct is egregious enough, temporary relegation to parliament.
Recently it was the disgraced teary-eyed, Brian Molefe, temporarily assigned to parliament, now biding his time for a likely cabinet appointment. He will likely be joined by Hlaudi Motsoeneng if the ANC Youth League in the Free State has its way. He will likewise bide his time for a likely cabinet appointment as Minister of Communications responsible for overseeing the SABC.
Motsoeneng will have the last laugh, and will happily invite his political enemies to a banquet for a main course of tough old crow in the cabinet's dining room.
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