30 years without improvement
It puzzles me that we still get political parties who always preach the message of "Working together we can do more"
• Cope West Rand region organizer Nicodemus Phake writes:
I was a pupil at Pahama Senior Secondary School in Mohlakeng some years ago.
I was sentenced to ten years imprisonment and I had to serve five years concurrently at the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison for participating in the students uprising on 16 June 1976.
With regards to political prisoners, we did not have parole or remission of sentences, but had to serve our prison terms in full.
However, now I am observing the changes that have happened since I have been out of prison over the last 30 years and I am sad to report that I see little change.
When I was sentenced to serve my time, our parents were staying in two room houses with nothing but a kitchen and a bedroom.
They never had the privilege of enjoying their privacy.
We are still faced with the same situation decades later and that speaks of the lack of development in our country.
Hostel dwellers were living in filthy, stinking and squalid conditions and one would be surprised to find that they are still living under the same conditions.
It puzzles me that we still get political parties who always preach the message of “Working together we can do more”
My question is: what can we do more of?
They can’t improve the living conditions of the hostel dwellers and that of our parents who are still packed in those two room houses yet they want us to do more.
More for who?
