Cape Times

How many more lies must people swallow?

- ILSE HAAS | BOTHASIG

CITIZENS in SA are getting told one lie after another by politician­s.

I have been watching daily the looting in different areas of the country.

How can Cele stand there and say the police have done what they should do? He should have said the police have done what they had been told to do: “nothing!” Standing “spread-legged” in rows, hands on weapons, watching looters running in and out carrying items, a double-bed mattress carried on the head, trolleys full of looted smaller goods. Instead of preventing the mob running in … well, who had the guns and rifles?

How can a bunch of criminals carelessly destroy an ATM machine right in front of the police station in full view of TV cameras?

How many more lies does the law-abiding citizen have to swallow?

SA politics has become or is a joke in the whole world. After more than 25 years of freedom SA has only chaos and destructio­n to show.

In the meantime, people with “Dr” titles are popping up like mushrooms in SA when children cannot even attend schools.

Mr President, you are looking for investors outside SA while politics has become a big joke. Do not read those lukewarm speeches to bluff. Say with your own words what you really think.

The endless talk about “job creation” is another joke. Yes, people want jobs, but not work. Who is employing people without any profession­al training, but full of demands – people with their only interest of getting money for nothing, getting money for increasing the poor population while not able to look after themselves.

SA law-abiding people are tired of the incompeten­ce of politician­s.

There are plenty of people who could keep it in shape, and put food on the table for their constantly increasing families.

I have been a very sad citizen in SA for over 50 years.

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