Chairperson, the EFF rejects the Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report for the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration. For a state such as ours, troubled by differential access to quality public service by appropriation of public money through the elicit practice of outsourcing of services that should normally be performed by public servants, we need a stronger public service that must service all the people in this country equally.
The deliberate weakening of public service; the systematic destruction of the capacity of the state to provide service and the ill-fated attempts by the Minister of Finance to dramatically reduce the public service will be vehemently opposed by the EFF.
The deliberation weakening of public service, the systematic destruction of the capacity of the state to provide service and the ill-fated attempts by the Minister of Finance to dramatically reduce the public service will be vehemently opposed by the EFF for the second time.
The destruction of the public service is aimed at handing over the provision of public services to provide companies so that financials of the friends of those in power can benefit from looting public resources.
We want the public service strengthened; we want nurses appointed for rural clinics; we want qualified teachers appointed to teach our children; we want cleaners and security guards providing service to the state department insourced; and we want tenders abolished so that those appointed in public service are those [Inaudible] So, the EFF rejects this budget. [Time expired.] [Applause.]