House Chair, bell's repeating that 25 years after freedom, South Africa is still one of the most unequal societies in the world because government's redistributive policies which promised a short-cut to prosperity for many have delivered that prosperity to a select politically-connected few, which has undermined the pact of a broad-based empowerment. The state resources that should have been used to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality, reduce youth unemployment and create jobs for our people have been appropriated, to a large extent, for private use. They have been used to