EDITOR – We’re about to enter that familiar annual period of advertising and events, pronouncements and platitudes. No, not the Christmas season, but another equally vacuous and silly period of money wasting, false appearances, drunken speeches without depth and so very little of consequence achieved: South Africa’s “16 Days of Activism – for no violence against woman and children.”
Once again a complete and utter waste of time and our money. A farce. A sop to the very real sickness that pervades our country and shames our nation. The horrific statistics (dodgy as they are) simply confirm our nation’s shame and the failure of our government to address the problem.
Every year the same waste of millions of Rand, effort and time by government. The same small minded platitudes and completely ineffective yet expensive 'events' and the same grubby pronouncements from people in authority who should (and often do) know better.
From parliament to the legislatures to the municipalities, it's just another opportunity to feed at the trough while domestic abuse escalates and violence against women and children continues appallingly unabated.
For shame, South Africa, for shame.
Mark Lowe
Durban
