Study on moving Parliament 'a waste of money'

Melanie Verwoerd 

While most of us were focussing on the local government elections, Parliament recently issued a tender for the conducting of a feasibility study on the move of Parliament to Pretoria. This of course originates from President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address earlier this year, when he suggested that amalgamating the legislative and administrative capital will be a major cost saving for the national fiscus. The tender for the feasibility study, which had to be submitted by 5 August, is apparently worth more than R1m. The successful service provider should apart from their own calculations and research on the socioeconomic impact of such a move also look at previous studies done on the issue.

What a total waste of money!