The party presides over a wasteland of its own creation — replete with poverty, despair and pestilence.
There’s a continuum of cognitive dissonance in South Africa.
Take Hammanskraal. At the time the FM went to print, at least 15 residents had died of cholera, amid 41 cases countrywide. The ANC will, of course, tell you that water and sanitation is a local government competency — and therefore up to the DA. And it would be partly right, since a 2019 South African Human Rights Commission probe found the water there to be undrinkable.
It’s admirable that the powers-that-be are setting up a task team to manage the issue. But we shouldn’t allow that to overshadow the issue of responsibility.
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