Will mayor launch cleanups in our ‘safe city’?
Have I understood Mayor Bobani’s message correctly in the very poorly written Herald article, or have I been misinformed?
Nelson Mandela Bay is one of the safest cities in the country, and more than half of the countries in the world are safer than ours, including Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
But it is important to note that our safety has only existed for the whole of the last five months.
Before that, over 100 more people were still alive.
We fervently believe that a healthy apple is grown on safe pear trees and because of this we can say we have one of the safest pear trees in the country, even if we don’t have a clean community.
When people have nothing to do, young kids kill each other.
Some people read a book or sleep instead and are sometimes killed too.
We would use job creation as a way to curb crime because tik addicts are very good workers, but then it is you, not us, that must make sure that these people are working for their money.
Ultimately, when drunk drivers have had their licence checked at all of our two roadblocks, we can rest assured that everyone in NMB is safe.
The role of the media is to report the public good and progress we are making in the city, but the relationship between the coalition and the media is rhetorical because we are going through a rhetorical time.
We cannot allow misinformation and party politics to delay our mission and hardearned freedom.
Things are different now, but still rhetorical.
Simply put, our mission, and our strategy, is to connect and implement and support our poor and disadvantaged communities.
A healthy and clean mind is part of our DNA, and this is why we are launching a citywide programme to remove trash across the city.
Our people deserve a clean space.
We cannot allow mental decay in the city.
From this, I think I can gather that the mayor will be launching litter-clearing programmes in NMB, which will offer casual employment to some 0.0038% of the population – and it is believed that by putting these 5,000 people to work, there will be a significant decrease in robbery, hijacking, rape and murder crimes – possibly by as much as 0.000038%.