Failures of ANC policy

The impasse now faced by our government in respect of the nonpayment for water and electricity services, highlighted by DA MP Kevin Mileham, demonstrates the absolute ignorance of the ANC leadership of the fundamental realities of the long-term consequences of short-term decisions in the management of a country. It was the ANC’s insistence that nice-to-have rights be written into the Constitution, rights that cannot be properly met.

More recently, the ANC fails to understand that it is the productive effort of all its people properly directed that creates the income from which taxes and payment for water and electricity will come. The whole edifice of government employment is simply the use of that tax, it creates nothing, simply facilitates. It is ANC policy failures in education that keep a large portion of our people ignorant and so unable to earn a living. It is policy failure in the agricultural field that has resulted in huge waste of resources, both of money and land, and this has caused the failure of much of its redistribution policy.

It is because of ANC policy failure that the country has moribund mining and industrial sectors and that these vital parts of our economy are not able to grow and employ many of our people and pay tax in the process. Pie in the sky, castles in the air, bricks without straw, the determination of the ANC and its alliance partners to impose a socialist dream, together with a kleptomaniac and inefficient leadership on an economy that cannot support such luxuries, have reduced us to our current state.

Robert Stone Linden