ANC has neglected SA’s children, sacrificed them on political altar

In The Herald of January 29, under the headline “Put children’s needs above politics”, the ANCYL Eastern Cape provincial executive committee wrote an excellent letter appealing to the authorities for urgent action to alleviate the transport problems, and so on, faced by our children.

However, regretfully, a few sentences in their letter attacking the DA and others, and accusing them of politicising the plight of the poor for political reasons, negates the very plea they make ... their commendable sentiments now turned into just another snide, dirty political ploy.

Would it not have been a wonderful miracle if the letter was addressed to the DA appealing for the two parties to meet around a table for once, as mature sensible people setting politics aside, and jointly tackling the youth problems.

However, as we know, the youth have not been important to the ANC, who without hesitation will sacrifice their very own children on the political altar if necessary.

For instance, in August 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa said school pit latrines were to become a thing of the past.

Announcing a R6.8bn campaign called the Sanitation Appropriate for Education (Safe) programme, he promised they would be abolished within two years.

In a subsequent speech, he several times said he would expect the relevant ministers to report progress directly to him.

Today, almost six years later, more than 3,300 of SA’s 23,000 public schools still use pit latrines, according to government figures released in March.

This clearly demonstrates the pitiful regard our government has for our children.

The ANCYL’s letter clearly indicates they have been caught with their pants down and this is a desperate attempt to seek the moral high ground. After all, where have they been for the last 20 years?

Saying the DA exploits the poor for political gain is a bit rich coming from the ANC who have been doing so for years.

They have from the top down pillaged and stolen; been involved in wholesale corruption and self-enrichment; cadre appointments to key parastatals and senior government appointments of people incapable of running a Spaza shop, and so on.

Their very lack of concern for the wellbeing of our people is a major cause of the shambolic child transport problems. And for that matter everything they have touched.

The ANC is not only financially bankrupt but morally on the skids.

Is the court action against Israel a genuine concern or is it a political expedient to gain some moral credibility and a ploy to divert attention away from the shambolic conditions in our beautiful country, caused by Ramaphosa and his highly incompetent cohorts?

On April 25 2023, Reuters reported as quoted below:

“SA’s governing ANC will aim to repeal the country’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC), President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday, the second time it has attempted to do so.

“The party’s decision at a weekend meeting of its national executive committee came after the ICC issued an arrest warrant on March 17 against Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.” What now? Standing by your principles is alien to the president and his party.

Instead, they vacillate. The world justice system was not good enough for Putin but good enough for Israel.

One wonders will the bankrupt ANC be bankrolled for the forthcoming election by Russia or other Arab sympathisers as a reward?

“At least 23,469 Palestinians have been killed, and 59,604 injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7,” according to Gaza’s health ministry.

This is a shocking statistic by any standard.

But one can ask Mr Ramaphosa what about your own country, what about the following approximate per annum statistics?

● 42,000 rapes

● 6,000 cases of attempted murder

● 57,000 assaults against women

● 30,000 murders.

Don’t you think these atrocities need your firm attention instead of seeking to be some kind of hero on the world stage for political reasons?

And Mr Ramaphosa, if you are proud of and consistent in your actions are you going to lay genocide charges against Russia, the Sudan and all the others?

But then a leopard does not change its spots.

There is something obscene about a president who flaunts the law and flashes millions of dollars in cash trading exotic animals, while his fellow South Africans live in hovels and are starving.

One thing can be said about [Jacob] Zuma, Ramaphosa’s mentor and buddy.

He did not tolerate people who did not adhere to his whims around him.

That Ramaphosa was his close confidant and deputy president for nine years during which time the country’s heritage and assets were stripped speaks volumes about his credibility.

Ramaphosa never objected to the carnage, and one wonders how much he shared in the spoils.

Turning back to the plight of our children a despicable thought suggests they have deliberately been neglected.

Had they been given a good education the ANC would not be in power as any educated person will see the ANC for what it is.