In recent days, leading retailers, economists, and risk analysts have all voiced their deepest concerns over increasing levels of poverty, hunger, the ongoing energy crisis and the water problems associated with it…all as a result of the rank incompetence and unchecked corruption wrought by this ANC government’s policy of cadre deployment.
Like a ship without a captain, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) appeared stranded in the deep blue. No strategic direction. Sailors satisfied with ephemeral victories. Headwinds loomed.
The concerns I raise below were shared with me at Nkosi Mzolisi Diliza’s thanks-giving ceremony, in December 2022, who is also a businessman, where many prominent Eastern Cape citizens were present, including Professor Nkuhlu, Advocate Lusu, Nkosi Phathekile Holomisa, Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, businessman Sabelo Macingwane and many others. We informally chatted about the deterioration of the Eastern Cape, especially in the villages and rural towns where infrastructure is collapsing, and there seems to be no coordinated programme of service delivery. To compound matters, it is the meagre infrastructure that exist that people take out their frustrations upon, and destroy, when they are protesting.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has passed on his condolences to the family of Professor Kader Asmal, following the passing on of the struggle hero and former Cabinet Minister.