I have always made this Blog available for statements to be made by our followers in order to develop conversation on subjects that would be of interest to others. My good friend Stephanie de Bon has offered the following statement to show the little-discussed (often ignored) problems in her homeland.
This is what I have heard from some of our indigenous people since the year 1994 heralded the new dawn of freedom for South Africa.
The ANC inherited a fully functional country and a prosperous one. The public sector, from government departments down to town councils worked. The infrastructure: health, transport, education, security, police, water, sewage, and electricity, all functioned, and our agriculture fed the country. Mineral wealth helped fund all this.
In 25 years all this has been broken down. From levels A to Z in the public sector, cadres did work that they were not competent to do (at inflated salaries) so that, today, we have a country where there are protests - violent ones - about the lack of service delivery. The hospitals are malfunctioning, roads are in bad repair, the train services are interrupted and the airline is not flying and planes are in a state of bad repair. The school system does not deliver a literate population, crime is out of control, police are corrupt, water is polluted and sewage flowing into our rivers. The electricity board (Escom) is billions in debt, and we have outages from time to time. Municipalities owe billions in electricity charges which are not paid. SOE’s (State-owned Enterprises) are queuing up for billions in handouts, and the feeling here is that they should, except for Escom, be closed down.
On top of this the billions of dollars lost in revenue where these same freedom fighters have ripped the treasury off and pocketed the money. S.A. is, in the president's words, “BANKRUPT”.
Now, tell me how well the ANC is qualified to run a modern economy.
