THE state-mandated Road Accident Fund (RAF) facing financial challenges, and taking to court those who try to hold it accountable, serves as another strong example of how woefully inept the state is commercially. But this parastatal specifically, is making plenty more enemies of the state.
Over the last few weeks organisations representing various pockets of the legal fraternity sent a scathing memorandum to Parliament about the ongoing crisis at the fund, following the Deputy Minister of Transport, Lisa Mangcu, and the fund itself, blaming the attorney for the fund’s woes.
According to GroundUp, the memorandum addressed, among a plethora of issues, previous remarks by Mangcu and RAF CEO Collins Letsoalo, which blamed lawyers for issues such as backlogs and payout delays. But it also reported that in terms of