IT IS THE TENDER SYSTEM THAT IS ACTUALLY ON TRIAL HERE, FINISH EN KLAAR!

The tender system has become a nightmare in South Africa; a proverbial Frankenstein monster whose creators and adherents themselves don’t know how to stop it in its deadly tracks.

Touted as a black economic empowerment tool, the system benefits only a select few; mostly politicians of all parties in Parliament together with their cadres, friends, relatives and associates.

The hearings at the Madlanga Commission as well as those conducted by the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee have advertently or inadvertently put the South African tender system on trial.

Though day-in-and-day-out we see people like Brown Mogotsi, Julius Mkhwanazi, Cat Matlala, Nkwashu, Sergeant Nkosi, CFO Mnisi etc, they are mere proxies of a system that has gone haywire.

They are the embodiment of a reckless and dangerous system that must be nipped in the bud with urgency.

Without the tender system we would not have known of these individuals who are non-entities in actual fact, and have been made infamous by this dastardly tender system.

These aforesaid nonentities don’t even know how Solomon Mahlangu fought for the freedom of this country; they don’t care how Chris Hani was assassinated; they can’t recite even a single clause of the Freedom Charter; they know nothing about PAC stalwart Robert Sobukwe; they don’t care as to how many students were killed on 16 June 1976; they have never been to exile to join the military wings of the liberation movements or dabbled in stone-throwing (klipgooier) activities against the soldiers and policemen of the apartheid regime in the townships and they can’t read or they simply ignore the rules and regulations of the selfsame tender system which has made them filthy rich and arrogant.

Now what gives these aforesaid nonentities and tenderpreneurs in general the right to be awarded tenders while they have not fought for freedom in this country in the first place and don’t even respect the efforts of those who sacrificed their lives for the liberation of this land?

This tender system is arrogantly taking the people of South Africa and those who fought for the liberation of this country for granted.

The liberation fighters are never considered for these tenders; which common sense and empathy would suggest they should be considered, as they sacrificed themselves.

Instead we have nonentities controlling so-called tender adjudication committees and tsotsis bribing them or threatening them in order to get the said tenders.

Again I must say we are being taken for granted here.(Ba ya sijwayela!)

Just who do all these aforesaid palookas combined think they are under the sun?

Now it is therefore safe to say it is the tender system that is on trial here, finish en klaar!

Almost every case heard at the Madlanga Commission and the Ad Hoc Committee hearings involves a tender in one way or another.

The problem with the tender system is that it is designed to serve and be controlled by holy, unblemished and honest men and women who would adhere to the rules and regulations of this tender system out of their own volition, but the reality of the situation is that such dignified souls are a scarce species in South Africa.

The country is full of devil-inspired, callous, treacherous, covetous, jealous and selfish folks bent on getting rich at all costs without giving a damn as to who they kill or maim in their quest to be wealthy.

Adherents of the tender system, who in most cases have their mouths full of stolen food parcels and pockets which are full of cash back derived from tender kickbacks, are always quick to point out that there is no way that the government can procure goods for citizens without using the tender system.

Be that as it may, I would like to see a procurement system that won’t result in people being murdered; projects being stalled by tsotsis in the townships with whistleblowers being dismissed from work and in some cases being killed.

I want to see a procurement system which won’t result in whistleblowers having to skip the country and going to live overseas in fear of blood-thirsty tenderpreneurs whose evil acts they have exposed.

The present tender system won’t bring to an end the scenarios that I have just described and it must therefore be scrapped as it is evil.

I am urging all South Africans to urgently ponder about a system which will eventually replace the tender system which hangs around the necks of all the people of this country like an albatross.

The tender system, my dear South Africans, is an incarnation of evil and satan.

It is worse if not equal in brutality to the erstwhile system of apartheid.