Alex residents should pin their hope on the African People’s Convention Party (APC) to get them out of their bondage.
This was said by social activist and party adherent Thabo Mopasi weeks before the harmonised provincial and national elections.
Speaking to Alex News, Mopasi said, “Alex’s woes of squalor which is also in other townships will only go away through an honest and earnest African-agenda driven only by the APC.”
The solution he said, will derive from the restoration of African traditions, culture and the arts giving guidance to a way of life devoid of exploitation which breeds conflict and xenophobia. “Squalor, housing problems, electric pylons falling on and electrocuting residents, landlessness and negative labelling of each other are unAfrican, result in conflict, crime and killings caused by competition for limited resources and jobs.”
Mopasi said those classified as foreigners on their own continent bear the worst brunt while the weak and marginalised can barely survive daily hardships without income, security, care and concern by the government at all levels.
He said the APC was for an agile government with the people’s interest at heart. “It is for nationalising and socialising the land for residents’ use for subsistence including housing, farming, commerce and industry.
Mopasi said their agenda is in partnership with Transform SA party through a 10-point manifesto plan. “The coalition is the only entity making substantive critique to the current energy crisis caused by managerial incapacity in power agency Eskom. “Its use of independent power producers bleeds the fiscus for private gain at the expense of employment which is under threat in the coal and related industries.”
He urged for a reconfigured board for the entity with leadership that is competent and qualified in the industry. He said the current leaders are plunging the nation into further crisis with new plants at Medupi and Kusile still a year away from commissioning due to long-standing faults in machinery and their failure to integrate the nuclear option to the grid he said was cheaper, would create more jobs and bring certainty to the power supply.
The 10-point plan is:
- Good governance that fights corruption and serves the people
- An economy that works for everyone through jobs to end poverty and inequality
- Full-time and permanent employment as a standard for all jobs
- End to illegal and exploitative activities by landlords and banks like evictions and deductions
- Improved basic services in education, health, housing, roads and electricity
- Fighting criminality and promote social cohesion
- Make agriculture and mining the base for industrialisation and development while protecting the environment
- Project an African personality and way of life in the material allocation and addressing of spiritual and intellectual needs
- Resolve the land question by nationalising and socialising it to benefit everyone
- Ensure the Constitution is people driven, centred and enables socio-economic development.
