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October
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2019
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Asian peasant class
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Importation of an Asian foreign peasant
class
South Africa cannot afford to import poverty
while the majority of its population is jobless and on welfare!
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Ok,I
start this topic mindful of the burning topic of xenophobic violence in South Africa.
This is by no means an attempt to furn the sentiment that we know exists. Or
try to be an apologist for xenophobia.
One is trying to point out what our new rulers since 1994 fail to
see.
Poverty is global, and just because someone is from a foreign
country does not mean that they are investors or have more money than the
locals.
There is TENDENCY to allow PEASANTS from other countries to come to
South Africa for a livelihood or even displace our poor people.
For starters ,those who come from southern Africa are in my view our
second priority since they helped build our economy while we were still purely
mine commodity based. Our gold and diamonds were dug by all those who come from
SADAC in the main.
It is no secret that the Apartheid government did untold harm to our
niebouring countries.So we bear some inherited responsibility to these
countries.
But for us to start accommodating those from Asian countries is too
much for the poor. You see, what our new rulers fail to see is that when you
make policies that strain your little resources. The poor bear the worst of the
burden. For example when you say free health care for all. Your clinics now
fail to deliver quality service and your hospitals will not drive new mother
home after birth as it was the case.
The other day I stood in a que to check my blood pressure with a
gentleman from Pakistan. I though I will
be in and out in four hours that I had budgeted. I had to spend the whole day
and still pay my workers and VAT. This cannot be
South Africa has simply lost the plot
I listened to one member of parliament the other day trying to espouse
an economic theory I realized that we are in deep trouble.
If your new rulers cannot even understand simple economics 101 that
a child should be able to understand then there is little hope us. The worst
thing is that WE HAVE TO PAY SUCH IDIOTS……….Something has clearly gone wrong.
The beloved country is flying without a
cabin crew .it may have a pilot alright but crew…Dololo.
But what ever we do ,we must stop importing poverty when we can hardly
service our people
By
Mac
Donald Temane
