Voorsitter, sommige van die openbare ondernemings in Suid-Afrika is besig om 'n verleentheid vir die land te word. Die doel van openbare ondernemings in Suid-Afrika, soos dit omskryf word, is om mededinging te bevorder en om dit effektief te bestuur, maar jaar na jaar moet die belastingbetaler hierdie openbare ondernemings red van finansile ondergang en dit raak onaanvaarbaar.
Net vir die laaste vier jaar moes die belastingbetaler R80 miljard spandeer op openbare ondernemings en hulle vra nou nog 'n verdere R372 miljard om aan die lewe te bly. Daarom was die agb Minister Hogan reg toe sy onlangs ges het dat van die ondernemings wat nie doeltreffend funksioneer nie uitgefasseer behoort te word.
Minister Manuel het verlede jaar tydens die aansuiweringsbegroting in die Parlement ges dat openbare ondernemings nou 'n risiko vir die belastingbetaler word. Selfs President Jacob Zuma het vroer vanjaar in die Parlement ges dat sy administrasie openbare ondernemings baie strenger gaan monitor en die jongste toevoeging was verlede week toe die nuwe Minister van Finansies, die agb Pravin Gordhan, ges het dat die Tesourie nie net links en regs gaan geld uitdeel vir openbare ondernemings nie. Daarom moet die agb Blade Nzimande en sy ander kommunistiese meelopers besef dat openbare ondernemings wat nie funksioneer nie, nie net deur die staat bedryf moet word nie, want hulle bedryf dit nie effektief nie.
Die DA, as 'n sterk opposissie, agb Pallo Jordan, wil die aanbeveling maak dat, indien hierdie openbare ondernemings nie reg funksioneer nie, van hulle uitgefasseer word, geprivatiseer word of dat ons hulle verkoop sodat daardie geld wat ons andersinds daarvoor sou aanwend vir ander uiters belangrike regerings- en kollektiewe dienste in die land aangewend kan word. Dankie. [Tyd verstreke.] (Translation of Afrikaans member's statement follows.)
[Dr S M VAN DYK (DA): Chairperson, some of South Africa's public enterprises are turning into an embarrassment for the country. The purpose of public enterprises in South Africa, as per their definition, is to promote competitiveness and manage it effectively, but year after year the taxpayer has to rescue these public enterprises from financial downfall and this is becoming unacceptable.
In the past four years alone the taxpayer had to spend R80 billion on private enterprises and they are requesting a further R372 billion to stay afloat. Therefore the hon Minister Hogan was correct when she recently said that some of the enterprises that are not functioning effectively should be phased out.
During last year's Adjustments Appropriation Minister Manual stated in Parliament that public enterprises were becoming a risk to the taxpayer. Earlier this year even President Jacob Zuma said in Parliament that his administration would monitor public enterprises more strictly, and the latest addition came last week when the new Minister of Finance, the hon Pravin Gordhan, said that the Treasury will not hand out money at random to public enterprises. The hon Blade Nzimande and his other communist supporters must therefore realise that public enterprises that are not functioning should not only be run by the government, because they are not running it effectively.
The DA, as a strong opposition, hon Pallo Jordan, wants to make the recommendation that if these public enterprises are not functioning properly, they should be phased out, become privatised, or be sold so that the money we would otherwise be spending on them can be utilised for other vital government and collective services in the country. Thank you.] [Time expired.]