WORTHLESS CITIZENS

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Reports that a hospital dispensed expired medication to sickly patients are paralysing, not to mention a family losing a snake-bitten elderly woman due to the shortage of anti-venom in our clinics. This is when you get to fully understand just how meaningless the citizenry is to this government.

This careless attitude also played itself out in the treatment of the elderly this week, which saw a postponement of monthly grants in the most heartless of ways for those who used their last coins to get to the disbursement points. They should not be blamed for believing government doesn’t really care enough about them to ensure they are not subjected to this adversity.

Thousands of pupils will also be disappointed to learn that government will not be providing the 1 000 qualified teachers that they need to give them quality education because government cannot create posts for them. They are forced to make do with temporary teachers as if they deserve a temporary future. 

This is a government that would rather hire security force members in large numbers, just to sit idle.
Diesel has also reportedly run out due to unpaid suppliers, compromising government service delivery in the process. On the other hand, we have a Fuel fund that is looted at whim to pay civil servants salaries and other unbudgeted for items. We need no further confirmations to suspicions that government is accountable to nobody – least of all to Parliament.

Sadly, these developments of the past week - and a whole lot more examples of fiscal imprudence preceding these - affect only the poor, whose situation is about to be exacerbated by the impending tax and service fee hikes announced in the national budget presented by the Finance Minister Martin Dlamini recently. This is a budget that requires no sacrifice from the highly paid politicians who will continue to be catered for by the have-nots.
This is not how we would have loved to retreat from the ever worsening day-to-day challenges, to the sanctuary of our churches, to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ this weekend. However, it certainly provides us with good reason to beseech the Lord Almighty to heal our blindness as we speed down the highway of self-destruction.

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