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In government versus government, guess who draws the short straw, writes Helena Wasserman.

Painfully, South Africans are well aware of how their tax money is being wasted. We've seen it all: fire pools, R80 000 for a pair of R100 knee guards, the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor's R400 000 flight from Joburg to Dubai. The list goes on and on.

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