Der General Attorney hat in einer Unetrsuchung festgestellt das 344 Gemeinden in RSA total korrupt sind. Wir gehen ganz langsam den selben Weg wie Zimbabwe die ersten Zeichen stehen schon an der Wand. Ich schliesse das Thema nun ab, glaubt mal alle was ihr glauben wollt, ich weiss was hier los ist und habe keinen Bock mehr darueber zu diskutieren. Das Land wird von gierigen Affen regiert, was soll schon dabei rauskommen ausser das Chaos wie ueberbrall in Afrika.
Gruss Eldo
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Can't fill tanks with excuses
'2005-12-13
The DA has urged the minerals and energy minister to investigate circumstances which led to the fuel shortages, saying "you can't fill your tank with excuses". Cape Town - South African Minerals and Energy Minister Lindiwe Hendricks should investigate the circumstances which have led to the fuel shortage around the country at the Cape Town International Airport, says official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) minerals spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt.
In a motion to the National Assembly on Tuesday he said: "The South African public is not interested in excuses being offered for the fuel crisis at filling stations around the country and at the Cape Town International Airport.
"You can't fill your tanks with excuses."
Schmidt said: "There has clearly been a lack of planning which contributed to this chaos, and the Democratic Alliance believes someone should stand up and take the blame.
"The failure of long-term planning, the efficiency of contingency planning and the effectiveness of implementation strategies are contributing to the threatening crisis.
Conversion long overdue
"The conversion to cleaner fuels is long overdue as South Africa is one of the last countries in the world to discontinue the use of leaded petrol for environmental and health reasons.
"The conversion process is clearly lacking in effective contingency planning in the event of the conversion process not proceeding as planned."
The new system is to be introduced in January and refineries were being converted for cleaner fuels.
Both Hendricks and Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin responded to Schmidt.
Hendricks said the captains of industry had acknowledged that they had erred and not properly planned.
Learnt a lesson
Erwin said, however, that government had learnt a lesson.
Referring to the delays - resulting from fuel shortages - at the Cape Town airport, he said: "This was a serious problem. It did inconvenience passengers and airlines. Obviously this is something that we would not like to repeat."
"The lesson has been learnt," said Erwin.
Hendricks said when the fuel shortages had occurred, government had called a special meeting with "the captains of the industry".
They had acknowledged that the problems had been caused by "bad planning on their part" relating to the conversion of refineries, she said.
Urgent meeting
Minerals and Energy Minister Lindiwe Hendricks has called an urgent meeting with the South African Petroleum Industry Association for Tuesday evening to discuss fuel shortages, SABC radio news reported.