DEAR Editor,-
Can anyone assist in defining and clarifying what is happening in this country and in this region especially?
People don’t have morals any more. Like what is happening in the municipalities where some corrupt individuals change deployed positions in municipalities like a person would change things in their homes.
All those who are deployed, those who benefit through tenders and even those who sweep the roads for the municipality because they used to be party members, will always defend defenceless individuals or political party blunders. Organisations have lost credibility by swapping people caught in corruption within municipalities and voters vote for that party because of blind loyalty or by voting like cattle who follow the herd.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged people to think before casting votes because he saw similar things happening in other regions. On the other hand, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge encouraged voters to take the ballot and fold it without ticking if voters had no alternate party to vote for, rather than give power to corrupt parties.
Because municipalities are controlled by corrupt people, employees signed on as if they were at work while they were in a march to defend corruption. On the SACP – only the name is left in the country since its secretary general joined cabinet and changed the constitution to suit his new position in government. Now it is the vanguard of government and no more of the working
class.
We appeal to all the corrupt to not say “Do it for Chris Hani” or for “Madiba”. They don’t know the local national development plans with regards to e-tolling, labour broking, etc.
People who had nothing to lose materially hopefully used their vote wisely. We all know it’s difficult since currently there is no political party which represents those who had been involved in the movement before it became the governing party, and then abandoned its principles. Those who joined it later are just opportunists.
THEMBALAMASHINGA SHINGA
Qinabout, Gamalakhe
