There should be a place in jail for everyone who steals from their own people. But there should be a place in Hell for those who find the fortitude within them to steal from the people during a pandemic.
Some doctors emphasise the opportunistic nature of the coronavirus, and its uncanny precision in speeding up and augmenting the underlying comorbidities that were there all along.
These elites have for so long behaved as though the state’s coffers are bottomless, and have been dipping into them with such success that most of them believed that, indeed, the feeding was fathomless. This current coronavirus has driven us straight to the rock-hard bottom: South Africa has literally ran out of money and had to, cap in hand, go to the IMF for salvation.
In a more caring society, this would have been the moment when all, young and old, mighty and weak, rich and poor, get together in a social compact that would pull us through the calamity. Many did get together – where the government failed, hundreds of Community Action Networks stepped in heroically, providing the essential help and services that, in a “normal” country, would have been a duty of the democratically elected government.
If you are a doctor, or nurse, you are slam-bang in the face of Covid-19 exposure. You risk your own life, and that of your family, by getting out of bed every day and working to save lives. Maybe you get your salary for that. Maybe you get to use personal protective equipment too, maybe you’ll have to wrap yourself in a rubbish bag and reuse the masks you discarded days ago.
As we peel back the onion layers of corruption, we discover so much more: KZN PPE corruption, Gauteng PPE corruption, Free State PPE corruption… Notice the trend? Tenders inflated, friends awarded even as they have no discernible expertise or experience. All of it while South Africa is gasping for air. Many will die in dilapidated hospitals because the “cadres” took the money for themselves. Millions more will go hungry.
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