THE RICH AND SUPER RICH ARE ALSO ENTITLED TO ENTERTAINMENT, AND THEY PAY SOME TAXES

Responses to “In the rough: golf courses may be SA’s most wasteful luxury”

Judging by the tone and intent I think our Rebecca is fully qualified to become a full member of BLM and Antifa. She repeatedly mentions golf is a sport of the ‘rich and super rich’ indicating nobody else plays the game. Luckily, she mentioned Ramaphosa talking about it with Trump, so, yes, here are two super rich individuals.

While I agree that leases could be increased to R10,000 or R20,000 (to make sport even more expensive and exclusive), it is also pointed out how many people are kept employed and, let’s not forget, golf courses are sometimes the only green area in some small town. Do we really need to destroy every park to create ‘affordable’ housing in its place? That is what she suggests by comparing water usage for an average course and 6,000 poor households. I somehow doubt this calculation.

We are a family of two and we spend about eight to nine kilolitres per month. Would your average poor household spend only six kilolitres? I doubt it, that much would go to wastage I think, if not more.

Do you have necessary infrastructure (water, electricity, roads) to accommodate so many houses there? Do we really need to create shanty towns everywhere? Second, aren’t ‘rich and super rich’ also entitled to some entertainment? After all they pay some taxes, unlike your poor households, and keep this economy going despite valiant efforts by the government to stop them. By the way, the main reason why golf is expensive is because of maintenance costs. Your cheap housing township won’t be maintained to the same standard, I can guarantee you that.

So, in short, this is just another propaganda article in an effort to destroy something that is still good in this country.

Articles like that should be looked at in contempt that they deserve.