Cape Times

End cycle of poverty

- Robin Smaill Simon’s Town

HISTORY is in the past and we cannot change it. Some components of that history had toxic consequenc­es while others were beneficial.

To label them all toxic is as ludicrous as labelling them all beneficial. We may all differ in how we label each event.

What is important for the country is to move on and make progress. Namecallin­g and living in the past are not constructi­ve.

Poverty is a consequenc­e of behaviour and politician­s appear to be ignorant of this. To alleviate poverty, behaviour needs to change and none of the policies on offer have any possibilit­y of changing behaviour.

Family and parenting are the keys. We need to look forward to solutions and not backwards.

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