As we, a country of resilient and tough people according to our citizen number 1, stumble along this tortuous road of political pitfalls, inefficiency challenges and parliamentary potholes – how much more crushing news must we absorb? Here on the South Coast we sit with intermittent water delivery supply problems. That is now part of life. Buy a Jojo tank before you move to here. When we have water AND electricity we celebrate by doing the washing.
In Hammanskraal there is also a problem with but one that causes illness and death because of slack municipal practice. According to an expert a large number of sewerage plants in our land, are not functioning and therefore foul and dirty water is fed into the rivers. People draw water from the river, because the municipality taps are dry. This water carries germs and parasites.
My question is, why does it take so long for health authorities to diagnose the cause and effect and address the issue? They people did not go to bed and just wake up ill the next day. Now it sounds like “Oh! surprise surprise.” If the authorities did their jobs, no surprises at all.
On to schooling and its challenges. Seems that learners up to grade 4 have problems with reading/writing/language comprehension, so now we must get extra people to assist the learners to grasp the concept. These people are to teach them a skill necessary to their school careers, which properly qualified teachers are employed to do. How long has this reading problem been proliferating? Who has not been monitoring the reading development of learners.
Is this inability to process school work the reason learners underperform and the passmark has had to be dropped to 30% or 40%? All in all if you look at the bigger picture beyond my diatribe, the future seems to become so dark you will need rose tinted lenses and not shades because the future is so bright. In short, most of the problems that beset our country, my fellow South Africans, is because we do not practice foresight and preemptive behaviour. We plant mielies for one month and not for the year. Have a nice day!
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