P10 million x 57 = P570 million x 3 = P1, 710. 000 billion

It is probably also naïve to ask if the VDCs will be given guidelines as to how this money may and may not be used? As has been the experience of the Trump administration in America, information is dribbling out bit by bit – it being the view, very obviously, that we, the electorate, should not know how this decision about the P10 million was arrived at and indeed who took the decision.

Astonishingly even now, it appears that we have been allowed only a fraction of the basic information everyone now needs. From here, we gather that Dikgosi are to be kept out of the way. From there, we learn that MPs are not to be involved. And then District Councillors are also included in the keep out of the way list.