It is that time again when political parties will promise heaven and earth with amazing presentations and campaigns just to gain your vote.
All the visions and slogans of these parties are the same: trust, putting people’s interest first, together doing more, our only hope, empowering communities, change, better jobs, better service delivery, stop corruption, education, health, housing, security, that is what we all need. Unless if it’s an interest that is in conflict with others, and yes I like this one: tenders are the main source of corruption and it should be stopped.
I wish to see the day when all parties become one, all parties sharing the responsibilities, all the promises achieved, even though some promises are long term like free houses. It is a circle that will continue forever.
We need to figure out what is important and what is necessary to get our country forward. We have homeless people all over our cities sleeping under bridges and trees; why don’t we do something about that? Our shelters are overcrowded; I challenge anyone who can give up his house for the homeless. How do you, as a mayor, feel when you drive a million rand car while your neighbour whom you promised heaven and earth starves to death? We need to have a budget for shelters around the country – more than for the prisons and new shopping malls.
People wonder why we have so much crime in our country; crime is caused by desperation due to joblessness and hunger. We have allowed foreign people to come to our country and sell drugs to our brothers and sisters openly, and we are doing nothing about it. Sivewright Street is now the new Lagos, a hotspot for crime and prostitution, and we are quiet.
They talk about working together but as soon as they gain power it stops. They say my vote counts, you can’t complain if you don’t vote, but even if you vote you can’t be helped. They only concentrate on what is in my pocket … my tax money.
I say today: take charge of your own life. Be the parent you would love your children to be proud of, be the master of your ability, be the leader not the follower, and stop riding every train going back and forth, not knowing where you are going. Stop depending on the government that will never do anything for you.
