The short simple answer is: the majority of south africans have just about enough going to get them by every day (enough time, enough money, a job.) These south africans have a government they believe should be doing: instead they're doing not. How is that our responsibility (when x number of councils suffer cronyism, corruption and budget underspend, or overspend: with no delivery to the communities.) (How is this our problem.) To top it all we pay tax: what do they do with the money??! The sa gub is certainly richer than the average taxpayer. Why don't they do something about it (instead of pointing fingers at us who are keeping them in wages, and all of the above, in the first place.)
Re the irish whatever: look at the profile (I assume.) Who are these people and how can they afford to be here?!
About the profile of the IRISH volunteers, here's the link.
http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/social_delivery/niall-mellon.htm
Paying taxes is mandatory almost the world over, so no medal for you, sorry! Even the poorest person in this country pays tax. I was actually refering to instances where ppl do stuff out of the goodness of their hearts as well as the willingness to correct the wrongs of the past for the betterment of the future.
25% of South Africans are unemployed, that number could be halved if only the super rich ppl of this country could stop crying victim and instead get involved in some positive nation builiding initiatives. The real victims are the poor here.
The ANC government has failed dismally by intituting policies that favour big business and do precious little for the poor. Let me enlighten you on some of the ANC's failures...
In terms of income inequality, today South Africa ranks 116th out of 124 nations.
Average white household income has risen 15% since the end of apartheid.
Average black household income has fallen by 19%
The ANC gvt has failed to deliver on its promise in the Freedom Charter to redistribute 30% of the country’s agricultural land from 60,000 white farmers to blacks.
Since apartheid ended, approximately 2% has been transferred.
In the last ten years of apartheid 737,000 people, mostly poor black farming families, were evicted from white-owned land. In the first decade of democracy, under ANC rule, 942,000 were evicted. While the ANC has brought in legislation to prevent evictions, it is neither resourced, nor enforced.
And this is how it all happened...
The ANC introduced GEAR, Growth, Emploment and Residstibution, as its new economic strategy.
Two years later, the United Nations Development Programme described GEAR as basically ‘no different’ from the economic strategy of the apartheid regime.
The other major ANC economic initiative is Black Economic Empowerment. Archbishop Tutu described it as ‘crony capitalism’ wherby the struggle aristocracy of the ANC receive appointments to the boards of major corporations. Macozoma, Sexwale, Ramaphosa , you get my drift?
All of this was meant to show you that we won't get anywhere, as long as we still look up to the jackasses in parliament to do what's right for the country. They are nothing but a bunch of self serving a**holes that don't give a **** about the country.
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