Since 2010, SA has not effected any infrastructure development. The magnitude of development before the 2010 soccer World Cup drove the economy to plus 4%.
There were plans to build a bullet train from Johannesburg to Durban and Cape Town. Development like that would have resuscitated the economy. When the ANC took leadership of the Ekurhuleni, for instance, all the amalgamated towns had beautiful civic buildings that boasted water fountains. Now all those fountains are dilapidated and non-functional.
The state capture report will hopefully save the public when people involved finally face the music. The public is eagerly waiting to see whether the South African judicial system works. All this problems have to be resolved before the 2024 general elections.
The ANC finds it hard to resolve its internal differences and looks likely to split come 2024. The recent election results suggest the ANC faces an upward battle in redeeming itself as other opposition parties also refuse to work with it.
The ANC is doing to South Africans what the Zanu-PF did to the Zimbabweans.The ANC is a party of pensioners who do not want to retire.
Education ministers do not engage the youth on matters and challenges our youth face. The ANC government has failed to address substance abuse and drug trafficking. A former minister’s wife was convicted of drug trafficking-related charges, which suggest they are also involved. Illegal immigrants own shops and bribe law enforcement officials to bring illegal items to the country.
The ANC believes the economy will grow without implementing measures to protect it. The government is still bloated with RET hyenas.
Leaders are preoccupied about who scores a lucrative government tender contract so that they can lay their hands on the loot. Greed overshadows everything. Once a person is in power, they want to drive a Bentley.
They fancy themselves deserving of wealth but the sad part is that they are messing up because they know they are pensioners. A person who left the country in 2010 would be horrified to see how Johannesburg, the revered city of gold, looks today.
All organs of state are run by incompetent ANC cadres. ANC councillors don’t encourage residents to pay for services nor conduct civic education with residents on the impact of illegal dumping. They don’t even want to develop themselves educationally.
When one looks at all the African liberation movements across the entire African continent, few of those organisations have done a lot of damage to their respective sovereign countries as the ANC has on poor South Africans. In just 27 years, the ANC has brought this country to irreparable ruins by looting.
I do not hate the ANC but truth be told, its cadre deployment has brought this country to ruins. Come 2024, a lot of corruption scandals would surface and the South Africans would be disgusted with the ANC of pensioners and criminals and they will lose power fair and square to the opposition because I know South Africans are not the dumbest people after all.
Whoever will take up the leadership of the country after 2024 still faces many challenges of rectifying the blunders of the ANC.
The ANC is gradually growing to be detested by its loyalists. In my view, it faces extinction. I’ll be happy to see that happen soon rather than later because a time bomb of non-working graduates is ticking.
• Pelo is a Sowetan reader
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