On Wednesday, the 22nd of February, Pravin Gordham (the Finance Minister for South Africa) added just another sensational cop-out to the list of the ANC's failure to take responsibility for this country... The rot and the corruption in rife, endemic and omnipresent from the top down through the whole organisation...
The whole nation was looking anxiously towards the finance minister's 2012 national budget speech with trepidation, as the nation unemployment percentage has risen to levels that mirror that of Zimbabwe in early 2000. So many people are out of work that the social fabric of most towns around the country has deteriorated to the point of sociopathic chaos.
And what was the finance minister's response to the 75% unemployment level in South Africa? His comment was that "The South African people shouldn't wait for the goverment to organise any initiatives to combat the poverty pandemic in this country, but instead take matters into their own hands and make jobs for themselves.". This is despite the fact that the ANC party members are all jostling in the aisles for the latest R2million luxury sportscar and R12million mansion in the suburbs!
Several ANC run provinces have revealed that Matirc students from 2011 have had to resort to the new workplace that has taken over South African urban landscapes after spreading down from Kenya, Nigeria and the DRC - Hamun Trafficking & the Sex Industry. This is because there just isn't any other way for the young people (between 18 and 35) to earn a living or even make ends meet...
It has become a frequent sight for girls as young as 5 or 6 years of age to be seen selling their bodies on the city streets for a warm plate of food and somewhere "safe" to sleep. Many of the locale human rights groups have decried that this is a total rejection of the example that Nelson Mandela set when he was president between 1994 and 1998 and a devastating indictment against the present cadres in the ANC heirarchy. Even the political activists, like Solidarity ahve declared a call for all international media and businesses to boycott any commercial enterprise with the ANC government and members until they change or are removed from office.
There is no option other than vilification of the ANC leaders that will liberate the citizens of this country anymore...
