Yesterday when I spoke to my mother she was truly fed up and it got
me thinking about how a big contribution failed service delivery and
inapt AA and BEE candidates made towards white on black racism in South
Africa.
So, a little bit of history to explain where I am coming from on this.
The Old Lady gave about 30 years of her life to hundreds of children
teaching maths, 10 years at white schools, and 20 at a black school.
Before she retired, the Education Department told her she would be
getting X on a monthly basis, but it turned out that she is now getting
Y, and the difference is big, being a lot less than she budgeted on.
Today she can’t come right with the Education Department’s “helpful”
staff, because none are willing to really do something about her problem
or are just to incompetent to do something about it, and that
accompanied by the Mangaung Municipality’s dodgy water and electricity
readings are driving her up the walls to the point where she, as a
liberal aunty who always taught me to have respect and understand for
people of all colours and social standing are making racial slurs.
She NEVER used the “K-Word”, and she even scolded me something fierce
when I popped out of my car and shouted obscenities to taxi drivers who
think they are above the law for some strange reason and drive on the
shoulder of the road while the rest of us law abiding commuters are
stuck in traffic, sometimes kicking up small boulders that chip windows
and dent panels.
Well, never, until her trouble started with the above mentioned government, and partially government owned institutions.
I myself have experienced it, loads of times, especially when you go
into Pretoria central and you see the inefficient way things are being
done at the State departments, and it is always a mission to get
something done.
I then realised how through a failed policy the Government helped to
polarise the country. Instead of decent skills transfer the ANC lead
Government choose to get rid of the skilled people as quick as possible
and to get their Cadre deployment up and running because of the promises
they made, it was first noticeable in State departments and then it
spread to the private sector in the form of AA and BEE.
Simply, most of the people who now were in control did not have the
skills to deliver services or maintain the existing infrastructure, and
to top it all off they literary raped the Education System to churn out
less than desirable candidates who were, until recently fed utter
rubbish in the form of propaganda from a certain Youth League that they
are entitled to the riches of the land by becoming party members, and
not by working for it.
It breaks my heart to hear my Mom utter those words, but, she is
running into a wall of bureaucracy, with all the people she turns to
being black and not willing to help her out once and for all, and having
had the same type of issue before with Home Affairs I can understand
how this can breed hate and resentment.
Bottom line is, we need to educate our people, each and every one of
them, give them a decent upbringing as far as possible, and get rid of
teachers who are only in it for the money, then we can produce a new
generation with more than sufficient skills to run a country and who
will not be fooled by empty promises by the crooked spin doctors who are
now in the foreground of South African politics.
This will most definitely close the gap in the racial divide and
smother the breeding ground of hate, not only on one side, but on both.
Knowledge is power, and in gaining knowledge our minds will be set
free, and we will be able to build an efficient country delivering more
than just basic services to everyone!
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