Might the business of the Gauteng legislature and its esteemed members include keeping an eye on the health department to ensure bills for essential dialysis consumables are paid on time at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, so patients can have their treatments? According to provincial legislature speaker Morakane Mosupyoe, official business on behalf of the province includes a comfy little trip to Venezuela, followed by some time in the US. And, of course, the R6 million spent on her and 12 others on that junket would have been money well spent, she would argue. It’s easy to justify spending someone else’s money. May we suggest a Dire Straits concert, where you can sing along to “money for nothing and your chicks for free…”