Political parties spent hundreds of thousands of Rand on the national municipal elections. Government spent millions on the inauguration party of newly elected presidents. What is the point when there are people that are really suffering out there? A seventy-year-old man looking after his disabled forty-year-old son lives in a mud hut they erected themselves. Their humble home caught fire and left them without a roof over their head. Where is government or any of these political parties when the average person needs their help?
How much would it cost government to help those that are in such dire circumstances? True, in South Africa we have thousands of people that are in dreadful situations. However, it is incredibly annoying when such suffering takes place under everyone’s noses and government spends money on such nonsensical things as changing the names of streets and towns.
Speaking to the destitute the answer is always the same. They do not give a damn about the names of streets and towns. When they hear how much government spends on these they are outraged. One man’s word say it clearly: “what does that street name do for me? Whether I walk down DF Malan Avenue hungry and begging or down Beyers Naude Avenue hungry and begging it is the same. The name change did not feed me, but the money they spent on this other name would give me food for a whole year.”
When will government and politicians get off their high horses and superficial ideas and start taking care of their people. Why should officials drive five cars, why should they stay in five star hotels? Why should they call and attend all these pointless functions? When will they stop throwing thousands of Rand worth of parties and look after their people? The spend on politicking is exasperatingly high. Millions of Rand are flowing into worthless agendas that have nothing to do with the economics of the country. This is not only the ruling government this is all active political parties.
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