Creating endless poverty is stupid
Nobody is perfect and we all need help to improve ourselves. Thus, we must recognise our faults and seek the required help. However, when folk do not believe, that what they are doing is wrong or illogical, then it presents a different problem as growing older does not also suggest growing wiser.
What am I talking about?
In a written response to questions in Parliament, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga in June this year said 90,037 girls aged from 10 to 19 years gave birth between April 2021 and March 2022.
Teen pregnancy numbers are increasing and costing taxpayers a fortune in overall health care and other social costs such as housing. We don’t even have electricity and water for paying customers.
As a nation that suffered great historical injustice, starting with slavery, colonialism and Apartheid we cannot allow ourselves to be ruined by the reckless behaviour of those who refuse to behave.
We cannot continue talking about the same things without actions that have measurable outcomes.
Example, any adult who impregnates a teen under 16yrs must receive sanction as a 16yrs old cannot be expected to make an informed decision. That’s why they cannot vote or drive or drink alcohol etc.
Since we already have the biggest wealth gap in the world I propose that both male and female who cannot financially sustain a child, “temporarily be sterilized”. A pregnant teen from a middle, upper class milieu may enjoy the protection of family. This saves the taxpayer. Everyone else must be sterilized before accessing state welfare. It is irrational for taxpayers to give to those who lack ability to make logical decisions as the reckless will continue to breed and burden the collective social system which is already inadequate and unable to sustain our population.
Sterilization is a logical exchange to access sponsored education, housing and medical attention etc. after the first born and until such time when the couple can care for themselves. Where is the logic of allowing the poor to breed more poverty? The forced sterilization will compel the affected to educate and find the necessary assistance instead of continuing with more destructive behaviour.
Stupid people admire the success of other nations without asking what sacrifice was required.
The China “one child policy” lifted 400 million people from the working into the middle class.
There are no such thing as “African solutions for Africa problems”. Solutions are logical and rational compared to most problems that result from illogical and irrational behaviour. We cannot build a prosperous nation with 40% unemployment and 90 000 pregnant teens per annum, it is impossible.
Cllr Yagyah Adams
Cape Muslim Congress