The year 2014 that was … We have had a tumultuous year, and to say that is actually understating the facts. In the year that we had, we have had general elections, we have had parties contesting the elections that had never been there before and we have had incidents which we have witnessed as humorous as they may have been, but in the end, we have survived it all. Had it been a good year – it all depends what your perception is about what is “good”? Would “good” mean that it is better than what it was, or does it imply that the situation has merely changed from what it was before? The fact or not that the change has been for the better or for the worse, is entirely in the mind of the one that is witnessing the change. The government of the day want us to believe that there are many “good stories to tell!” If one scratches enough you may possibly find these stories, but the question that needs to be asked is hypothetically, - is it a good story to tell that over 16 million people in the country are now receiving grants? The perception of whether this is “good or not” is entirely up to the individual. Would it not have been a “good story” to tell if we could have said that 16 million job opportunities have been created and that the unemployment rate is perhaps now only 2% to its current 26% that it is? Is it a “good story” to say that people now have “access to water” yet there are still some areas that have been waiting for 20 years to have access to “clean drinkable water” and in many cases even in Quno, the home of our beloved late President Nelson R Mandela, people are being forced to drink water from a river where live stock also get their water as the boreholes have not been maintained or have dried up. Is this a “good story to tell?” I don’t think so! Is “it a good story to tell” when the Municipality of that region admits that there is a serious water problem, but that it would take another 3 to 4 weeks to attend to it. Does than amount to anything “good” When sewerage lines are broken and the effluent spill over in the drinking water that people have to consume, and nothing is done to take any ameliorated remedial action to resolve the problem, does that amount to a “good story?” The good stories is so far and few between and then the problem is that each and every person in this country has a different understanding of the meaning of whether something is good or bad? So must we allow the manipulation that the ANC forces down on the citizens of the country, whom incidentally only needed 30% in subjects to pass their Grade 12 exams that we are actually better off? I seriously don’t think so. We should take “the bull by the horns” in the year 2015 and stop this manipulation and under-estimating of our intelligence by the government of the day. “You can maybe fool some people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:02:50 +0000
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