Covid-19 pandemic challenges corruption epidemic
"The word corruption, in practice, is synonymous to the municipality."
Come level one, we pray, our country’s President will get his government again to enact measures to curb the corruption epidemic crippling the economy of our country.
The word corruption, in practice, is synonymous to the municipality. It has become an epidemic to an extent that it can become a subject in our education system. The buzzword in everyone’s mouth is; that it has infected and affected even the innocent by being corrupted in our communities.
Whilst the pandemic Covid-19 was sweeping the universe, the epidemic corruption rose to scavenge on free food parcels sourced out for the poor victims. A good score for councillors who unashamedly kept the food parcels for themselves, friends and close families.
It’s an act practised all over amongst distressed communities and disparaging the image of municipalities and their councillors. One will think seven times to stand as a councillor or executive mayor within a dented image of monumentally corrupt practices. Once you get there, you qualify for the tinted qualification as corrupt.
Whatever face-lift you apply, the community will see a corrupt leader as one bird of the same feathers. Name one municipality which is immune from corruption! Painting them with one bush is an understatement when skeletons jump out their bureaucracies and corridors.
The governments’ Solidarity Fund through the Commanding Council has pumped out R120bn to municipalities to offset the threat of Covid-19 pandemic and the corruption epidemic has got its mouth wide open to gulp whatever comes to the rescue of the municipalities.
Recent destitute families had their shacks plundered and got exposed to Covid-19 pandemic at the expense of the corruption epidemic. So many RDP houses were available to any who had to cough up R60 000 to secure a house through a councillor, more than atrocious when corruption forces victims to pay as the only solution to have a roof over your households.
The corrupters will get more corrupted to justify the action of an embedded corruption within the municipality as a code of conduct.
As eMalahleni, do we need the Human Rights Commission or the Public Protector’s office to investigate occupants or owners of all these RDP houses at Klarinet/Pine Ridge when families are thrown out in the open field?
