Government to blame

MONDAY’S Justice Malala column, “Jobs SA’s real challenge”, refers.

It doesn’t require superior intelligence to realise that jobs and population are inextricably intertwined, and the longer this government permits uncontrolled illegal immigration and makes no effort to limit the mushrooming population increase, there’s no solution I see to this issue.

Although domestic work is obviously not top of the list when it comes to jobs, has anyone ever checked the “Domestic situations wanted” columns of this newspaper – primarily Zimbabwean and Malawian people looking for housekeeping and gardening work?

It makes a mockery of the fact that a retired German friend was recently required to have proof of income of almost R40 000 monthly to get a four-year visa to remain in South Africa.

This will be a highly unpopular comment, but as a member of the older generation, I also have a problem with all the lobbying and petitioning for more female representation in each and every profession, especially government.

While I have the utmost admiration for those who are successfully raising families on their own, this country has a woefully large percentage of dysfunctional young people, partly as a result of the number of single mothers, who either choose, or are forced through absentee fathers, to bring up their children alone, without adequate guidance and supervision.

I would dearly love to see a return to basic Judeo-Christian morality, which would see parents committed to each other in a loving marriage relationship and to care for the children they have brought into the world!

Old Bayonian, Port Elizabeth