Nobody is too bad to become good or vice versa
Recently I met a school mate in the butcher whilst buying sausage. He was upset with me as he said that I did not know what the butcher adds into the sausage and he made his own sausage at home.
As he was health conscious, I admired his efforts, although he was a notorious drug-addict and thief for decades until he became sick from cancer and decided to repent and repair.
Why am I sharing this cautionary tale?
Often, we witness politicians talk about foreign investment and economic plans etc. Oddly they fail to understand simple truths. Generally, people do not trust politicians as indicated by a 40% turn-out of eligible voters. Instead of talking about “big ideas”, I suggest politicians focus on basic realities.
Example, act against those who make our immediate environ a nightmare with anti-social behaviour. Minimise so called “human rights activist” who protect criminals and squatters. Tourism and job creation is tough enough in a milieu where criminals harass business trying to create opportunity.
Nobody wants to invest where criminality and corruption dominates etc. These are issues of logic and rationality and talking about foreign investment when criminality dictates, is a sick joke.
When the majority of state departments, municipalities and parastatals etc. under governance of the leading political party fail to achieve clean audits for decades, it shows that stupidity is winning.
When paying clients cannot access electricity and water, government should not talk about 5G, electric cars or the 5th industrial revolution etc. as it sound stupid. Burdening taxpayer when billions are wasted or stolen has no value? Why talk about an integrated rapid transport system when less trains operate than during Apartheid and buses are burnt regularly amidst the endless taxi violence.
When politicians hide cash in furniture, then talk about foreign investment it sounds a lot like an old addict talking to regular folk about health and religion. The conversation cannot be taken seriously.
I suggest, no politician or official be allowed to travel when a meeting can be on Skype, until our electricity and water supply is stable and unemployment and crime rate is reduced by 90%.
When 20 000 locals are murdered yearly it is evident that South Africa is not a safe destination and tourists will be killed. Unless we force politicians and officials, they will not change their behaviour and fix basic service delivery issues instead of endless “pie in the sky” useless pomposity.
Cllr Yagyah Adams
Cape Muslim Congress