The inimitable Des Van Rooyen, erstwhile 'flash in the pan' finance minister never ceases to amaze one. At a recent MKMVA media briefing, van Rooyen, its Treasurer General came to the aid of his embattled comrade Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini.
ANC alliance partners, opposition parties and others, have called on Dlamini to step down for gross incompetence and negligence in bringing the country's poor to the brink of starvation by playing games with their social grants.
van Rooyen, an ANC loyalist par excellence, pleaded for a timeout to afford Dlamini "and her capable department time to deal with this matter". A contemptibly ignorant plea that flies in the face of Dlamini's illimitable dereliction of duties, including departmental oversight. Not surprising, because to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin we are all born ignorant, but van Rooyen has worked harder to remain ignorant.
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