Unemployment, expanded definition is still sitting at 41% and we still see children dying of malnutrition every single year, says the writer.
By Michael Bagraim
Your Thursday editorial: “Talk won’t put food on table, Mr President” is absolutely right!
In South Africa we tend to talk a lot and do little.
We have had almost 30 years of talk shops, seminars, bosberaade, imbizo’s and even family talks. All these talks have cost us a fortune and wasted an inordinate amount of time. The talks very seldom produce anything at all other than animosity.
Now we are in a government of national unity and we need to move on and actually produce results.
Unemployment, expanded definition is still sitting at 41% and we still see children dying of malnutrition every single year.
We have strange expenditures such as sending students to study medicine in Cuba and soldiers to fight battles in the DRC. We even spend hundreds of millions of randsin fighting foreign court cases and send high ranking politicians on junkets around the world.
It’s easy to spend money when it’s not your own and it’s even easier to allot it to the “nice to haves”. We need to start thinking of the people and we need to remember that charity begins at home.
Cape Times
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