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Re: ANC se wiele kom af - sê Max du Preez [boodskap #106207]

Vr, 30 September 2005 07:22

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Uiteindelik iemand wat 'sense' praat! Ek is nie 'n bewonderaar van ou Max
nie, maar wat hy hier skryf, slaan die spyker op sy kop. Die gewone man op
straat, en dit beteken oor die algemeen meer die swart gewone man op straat,
het absoluut niks voordeel gekry uit die nuwe bedeling nie en dit het
absoluut niks te doene met die blankes en/of hulle eiendomme nie. Dit is
die direkte gevolg van wanbestuur deur mense wat nooit in sulke posisies
aangestel behoort te gewees het nie. Die 'bottom line' is dat die ANC,
Swapo en Mugabe se lot in Zim, nie een het vir sy mense beter dae gebring
nie......en tog stem hulle steeds vir hulle! WIL Afrika ooit vorentoe
gaan? In my ondervinding? Nee. Die gemiddelde swart mens is tevrede om
sy dag om te ploeter en het nie veel meer ambisie as sy basiese
liggaamsbehoeftes nie: Eet, slaap en spyker.

"Jonas" skryf in boodskap news:dhihr6$181$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net...
> Hiers 'n artikel wat moontlik kommentaar verg: (Jammer dis in engels.)
>
> Government is failing to deliver on its promises
>
> Talk Today Pretoria News 29 September 2005
>
>
>
> I sometimes wonder if white South Africans would have been so patient with
> the National Party governments they voted into power so many times if they
> had failed in delivering on day-to-day services in the way the ANC
> government is failing right now.
>
> Perhaps the explanation is that black South Africans keep on supporting
> the
> ruling party despite its failures because they learned during the
> apartheid
> years to expect little from government; that it is normal to struggle just
> to survive from day to day. Or do people keep on supporting the ANC
> because
> they find the alternatives unacceptable? Or is the old "liberation
> movement
> glue" still doing its work?
>
> They were racist, authoritarian, undemocratic and immoral, but the
> apartheid
> governments from the 1960s to the early 1990s succeeded in one crucial
> area
> where the present government is failing dismally: it established effective
> and efficient provincial and local governments that catered sufficiently
> for
> their own constituencies.
>
> The town clerk or city manager, a respected member of white society, was
> mostly a competent, hard-working administrator - and earned about as much
> as
> a high school principal. The city engineer and his staff were properly
> qualified people, as was the financial manager and his staff. I am sure
> there was at least some level of corruption and incompetence, but most
> white
> towns and cities functioned smoothly. In fact, many of the black townships
> even functioned well considering the circumstances of the time.
>
> Our cities, towns and townships do not function well any more. Some city
> managers are barely qualified and mostly inexperienced and, although
> incompetent and occasionally corrupt, earn in some cases more than the
> country's president. Ironically, inhabitants of what used to be the white
> part of towns and cities are not as badly affected as the townships. Many
> of
> them have become among the worst slums in the world. It is in these places
> that diseases break out, crime flourishes, and children grow up with
> little
> chance to one day be better off than their parents.
>
> It is at local level that government touches the people the most. Long
> before we care about foreign policy, arts and culture, the environment,
> defence, even before we care about education or democracy or what happens
> in
> Parliament, we care about having good homes with clean water and reliable
> electricity in clean, safe streets.
>
> The national government is doing a fine job managing the economy. We
> should
> be proud that our country has taken the lead in the reawakening of Africa
> and in brokering peace across the continent.
>
> But the government has since 1994 failed to understand that those issues
> and
> services mean little to ordinary citizens if .they live in towns and
> cities
> that do not function properly.
>
> Perhaps the decision to throw many municipalities together in big, single
> jurisdictions or uni-cities was a mistake. Smaller councils would probably
> have fared a lot better.
>
> But that cannot be the main reason for the failure of local government on
> so
> many levels. I think among the real reasons are the fact that local
> officials with years of experience were replaced by, in many cases, people
> with the "right" colour, but little experience and training. I think
> political appointments from the highest to the lower strata of local
> government had a lot to do with it. I think a culture of entitlement and
> of
> corruption is a big part of the explanation.
>
> And certainly the weak and often inept (and politically emasculated)
> provincial authorities which have jurisdiction over local councils are a
> big
> part of the problem.
>
> I wonder if President Mbeki and his ministers fully realise what a mess
> local government has become. They have been proven to be completely out of
> touch with the lives of ordinary citizens. I am sure the responsible
> ministers know that a large number of our municipalities are bankrupt, but
> I
> am not so sure they are aware of the total collapse of services in many
> towns and townships.
>