I must agree with the gentleman that said that the taxpayer must cough up for all and sundry to make the governments mistakes go away, and yet we get threatened for not paying our taxes. WELL EXCUSE ME DO YOU BLAME US, WE'RE SICK OF CHUCKING MONEY INTO A BIG HOLE AND SEEING IT GO UP IN BONUSSES AND SALARIES , to a undeserving bunch of beaurocrats!!!!

You already own SAA 100% ... and now you convert their debt into equity??? That 's my tax paying money feeding the previous SAA CEO's debt hole??? So what more have you bought me??? Do I get a discount on tickets?? Please people....... What value am I getting for my tax??? And yet SAA spends how much of our money on advertising, executive bonus's and trumped up incentive schemes for travel agents???? And Eskom??? Please don't get me started on those idiots... they would not be able to survive in a normal company. They want to invest now and have us foot the bill....while they still have so many inefficiencies in their own processes and systems.... and also have a charitable nature to constantly write off debts for non paying municipalities?????? and who pays the whole time.... ME !!!!

I'd rather see the R47bn go to Eskom and prevent further price tariff increases, then acquire a few military planes. Do we even have a qualified pilot to fly one?

Its a Good start for Gordhan, its about time someone cut the greedy ESKOM FAT CATS to size, ESKOM was bailed out by Trevor, we didnt see what happened to that money, the FAT CATS were busy awarding themselves HUGE bonuses, everytime they asked for money it goes into their pockets, its a Parastatul organisation, the JZ government must protect the people who voted it to pwer from these GREEDY FAT CATS, everytime they get money its NEVER enough for them, we're tired of this!!

There's incompetence all around us and we as the taxpayers have to pay for it! It's going to continue for so long as the ANC believes it has a divine right to "rule". And can someone please explain why Government is going to pay Sasol's price fixing fine? Sasol must pay out of its own pocket - preferably out of management bonuses.

Show me a single ministry or department which has not gone backwards during the past 15 years ... and I will take you to the end of the rainbow :-) It is shocking.

Sorry Irate, but we just can't afford the lube. You'll just have to grin and bare it.

Good! however they'd better not have any further severe increases. We have had enough of that and simply cant facilitate it any longer! Eventually we will fall behind with payments they will cut us off, and then if we dont switch back on where will they get their precious funding then? Fridges and Freezers can be converted to Gass and have Gass heated water too. What about our computers and so on and so on, who knows...back to the good old pen and paper I guess. .....Goodbye electronic age! We will see the collapse of the country as we know it!! Bravo Eskom! Your short sightedness has paid off.

Taxpayers to foot the bill for SASOL"s fine? A disgrace! We are now being double billed for the greediness by unlowal and treasonous CEO's of SASOL who should foot the bill or be sent to jail. I object in the strongest terms.

Okay, let me get this right: cough up on military planes, cough up on Sasol price fixing, cough up on previous arms deal, cough up on Eskom management, cough up on spending huge amounts on new cars, indaba to discuss cough up on service delivery, cough up on SAA. Can someone please point out if something is going right? The most amazing thing is the bigger the cough up the bigger the golden handshake to go away which we, the tax payer pays for. I dream of getting a job like that, in may job I have to be responsible.