Change in step with time

CONGRATULATIONS to ANC Eastern Cape chair and deputy chair comrades Mabuyane and Mvoko on having been sworn in as MPLs.

This is attributed to the entire ANC membership in the province which asserted that zizakujika

izinto (things will change for the better) in our province and reclaim our sterling role in the national politics of our country.

We as the rank and file of the ANC are at ease with this deployment championed by the provincial executive committee, as we hope for synergy and watertight implementation of resolutions taken in our eighth ANC Eastern Cape conference and provincial lekgotla, which detailed how the provincial government can work with national and local government to build social cohesion through opening opportunities for economic growth.

The Eastern Cape continues to have untapped opportunities such as its ocean economy, which could create many sustainable jobs, and there is potential for agriculture and industrial development.

Of course the mammoth strides led by the ANC to develop our province are noticeable.

Nonetheless, infrastructural backlogs, decaying small towns with alarming population growth and the rising challenges of unemployment and poverty require us to change the captains and find new ways of doing things. — Zibele Xuba, via e-mail