people voted for corruption, people voted for incompetence, people love this stuff,
build houses and buy cars and enjoy themselves with this money,
and guess what, nobody cares, or will ever care, come election, they vote ANC,
so we can scream and shout till were blue n the face, the corrupt get richer, while everybody else starves.
The entire continent is like this
This is part of an article published in a Swiss Bank circular after the bank was critised for "not giving enough"
Africa's enormous resource wealth has largely drained away, most visibly in the pockets of the political class, which has unabashedly siphoned off the proceeds from the sale of mineral resources for decades. The daughter of former Angolan President Dos Santos is considered a billionaire. Ugandan MPs recently approved $30 million in new cars. The Vice President of Equatorial Guinea bought a $120 million ocean-going yacht for his private pleasure. There are plenty of such villains. However, it would be a mistake to think that the misuse of public resources is only a matter for the upper echelons. Corruption runs through all social classes. The powerful derive the greatest benefit from it, the powerless the least. It is incomprehensible that the poor lethargically endure the excessive activities of their exploiters.
Maintenance is still largely unknown in Africa. This is particularly evident in the condition of the roads. The damage to the trucks alone, which thunder over the potholed roads, causes enormous costs. The money needed for this is not available elsewhere. Bad roads are a disaster for transporting perishable goods, domestically and internationally. Another example of massive waste of money: the regular and extremely annoying failures of the public power supply, especially in hot times. Mismanagement devours a large part of the national wealth. The state of Niger allowed itself a flyover in the capital Niamey for the equivalent of 64 million euros - in a country where many children cannot go to school due to the lack of teachers and school buildings. In July 2019, Niger spent more than EUR 100 million to host a two-day African Union summit conference.
If Africa stopped squandering its resources and instead used them wisely, there could be a perspective for hopeless young people who want to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. In order to achieve this, however, the sluggishness that prevails in all areas of society would have to come to an end. Better planning, consistent enforcement, more thorough work, reliability and consistency would be urgently needed. That is lacking everywhere.
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