MECs living in the past?

ANC MPL Max Mamase was this morning reminded of the days when he was a member if the provincial cabinet. Waxing eloquent during the debate on Public Works, Mamase was told he only had one minute left.

“Are you missing the time when you were an MEC and you had unlimited time?” DA leader Athol Trollip asked. After a long pause and in response to calls of “answer” he said “yes” – whether it was the time or the other goodies that go with being an MEC he didn’t say.

Public Works MEC Christian Martin was also waxing eloquent this morning talking about innovation, although why that should be necessary in order to rid the province of the 869 mud schools he didn’t say.

Public Works is responsible for replacing 208 of them and this will form part of an incubator launched by the department, he said.

Martin also quoted Barack Obama as saying; “This is our time. Our time to turn the pages on the policies of the past”.

Didn’t know we had had a change of government.