EFF are racist destroyers
It’s a reality that BCM Traffic Services has lost the plot when it comes to bringing order to the streets of the metro
The EFF is a party that does not seek to build, they seek to destroy. And sadly, their message that they can take what they like without consequence can resonate with those who have nothing.
The Springboks’ victory is not celebrated, but called racist. The appointment of someone who may just turn Eskom around is racist, and Pravin Gordan is a racist too, apparently.
This divisive, race-based politics is no better than the Freedom Front Plus, or the lurch to the right in the DA as it moves to classic liberalism, or more aptly, classic lunacy.
Yet the outcome of EFF policies are evident. Venezuela was an unequal society, much like SA. Much like in our country, those who held the wealth refused to share even some of it. Finally enough people voted for Hugo Chavez and he implemented all the policies the EFF thinks SA needs.
We moan about two-hour Eskom blackouts caused by the looting of Eskom and positioning of unqualified people by the man Julius Malema was once prepared to “kill for”, former president Jacob Zuma. In Venezuela they have rolling outages that last days. Their biggest foreign exchange earner is oil, but they cannot afford the parts to keep the wells pumping. Eventually they ran out of the money they took from the wealth producers. Next comes being colonised economically by the International Monetary Fund.
Yet these EFF leaders seem to live in the same bubble that Chavez and his country-destroyers did. Spending thousands in single visits to nightclubs, drinking malt whisky (probably with that socialist drink, coca cola), driving top-of-the-range Range Rovers and allegedly having access to a private bank to fund this lifestyle. The people they seek to liberate economically will never have these things, but then noone will, outside the leadership. In Venezuela there is now equality — everyone is equally poor, except the politicians.
The ANC is still riven with division as those who saw what riches state capture could generate seek to overthrow President Ramaphosa. The ANC is our only chance, but we need the Ramaphosa wing to triumph and perhaps move to coalition with people like Herman Mashaba and Bantu Holomisa in government. If not we are all doomed. We won’t need to turn out the lights because the EFF will have ensured we can’t turn them on anymore. Andrew Macdonald, via e-mail
Apartheid flashback
As a South African citizen I lost my faith in SAPS recently when the fighting with invaders was going on in the Vergenoeg area (“20 RDP Homes Set Alight Iin Fynbos Eviction Drama“, DispatchLive Nov 15).
I saw the public order police doing things just like they did during apartheid, when they shot at us in my grandmother’s house and threw tear gas in the house in the early hours of the morning.
When we went to the Buffalo Flats police station to report the case all they did was take our names and contact numbers. They said they will send a van but they never did. That was the night shift station commander.
When I went to the cluster office to report, all they could say was we had touched the canister of tear gas so we had touched away the evidence. I asked “don’t the police sign it out in a register?” But all it is, is black police covering for black police. Julio Snyers, via e-mail
Traffic cop carp
It’s a reality that BCM Traffic Services has lost the plot when it comes to bringing order in the streets of the metro.
Park Avenue in North End is a nightmare as all cars are either being panel-beaten or mechanically repaired. Heavy-duty trucks disrupt morning traffic, and there is no order in Oxford Street, Buffalo Street and adjacent streets.
Gillwell taxi rank and the area around Nick’s Foods is another nightmare area, and Devereaux Avenue has been turned into another Oxford Street, with taxis parking on pavements where pedestrians must walk and illegal stopping and double parking has become the norm. There is plenty of work for the traffic officials to do but visibility, there is none. If normal citizens like us can see the problem why can’t the traffic chief? If you need more staff why don’t you approach the SAPS to help you and restore some order in the city? Or are you happy for it to become like Mthatha? Name supplied, via e-mail