DA Cabinet Report Card

Farrel — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:13:00 -0600

The DA have released their annual cabinet repord card. Some of my comments:

As expected Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel gets top marks – 8/10.
And also as expected Minister of Health, Manto Tshabalang Msimang gets a big fat zero.
Suprisingly Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri gets a 5, which frankly is 4 points too much. It took 4 years to get the SNO licensed (and it won’t be up and running for at least 6-9 months), ICASA is a mess and toothless and Telkom is ripping the public off as best they can. I refer you to myBroadband for the gory details.
Minister of Tourism and Environmental Affairs Marthinus ‘Kortbroek’ Van Schalkwyk gets a respectable 6/10 mainly for environmental achievements. Tourism is still strong but with the highly publicised recent attacks on tourists in Cape Town he better keep his eye on the ball.
Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe’s score held steady at 4/10 despite MetroRail still being unsafe and unreliable, traffic gridlock beginning to choke Cape Town and Johannesburg, taxi recapitalisation still nowhere to be seen and of course, Gautrain.
Minister of Science Mosibudi Mangena score increased to 7/10 mainly thanks to the SALT telescope. But that’s something that won’t affect many actual South Africans and the continuing (and alarming) lack of skills in science in engineering in South Africa should have lead to a much lower score.

"DA Cabinet Report Card" by Farrel

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:11:48 -0600

I did a doubletake when I saw that as well.

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:54:29 -0600

6/10 for Kortbroek? I’ll give the DA credit for not holding a grudge.