Government leaders’ incompetence an awful recipe for disaster

I AM SEEING it unfold right in front of my eyes. The elected politicians are simply incompetent, unqualified and lack experience. They are appointed for all the wrong reasons. The system also gives them too much power.

In addition, they are appointing senior staff within key sectors of government. They choose party loyalists above those with the proven skills and ability to manage.

You now have a recipe for disaster, both incompetent political office bearers and senior management.

Now look around you. What do you see? Everything is collapsing because there is no leadership and no skills and no management.

The president, in proposing a solution to the power crisis in the country, sets up a crisis committee. Guess what? It’s made up of the same politicians that created the mess in the first place. How ridiculous is this?

Would you appoint a pilot because he is loyal to your party? Or because of the colour of his skin? Or on his ability to sing and dance? Definitely not. Because, if you do, you run the risk of killing all the passengers.

The same applies to doctors and surgeons. You won’t take a risk there.

But why do we allow these politicians to play with our lives?

Electrical transformers are blowing up through load shedding and the constant tripping of power. Every time the power goes back on, the sudden surge in electricity causes the transformers to break down. It’s like your appliances at home.

The load-shedding schedule is no secret. We all have it so we switch off the DB box and our appliances before load shedding starts, right! This is to ensure the appliances don’t break. So why doesn’t the electricity department not do the same to protect the transformers? So what happens? The transformers pack up and we are burdened with additional hours of load shedding.

Take the traffic lights as another case in point. We all know, even the homeless at the intersections, that when load shedding takes place, the traffic lights don’t work. But the management of metro police and our senior councillors in charge of the city don’t know this. If they did, they would create a roster and deploy metro police officers to all key intersections during load shedding.

My dear politicians who are in charge of key government portfolios, don’t understand this.

When things don’t work, like electricity, water, picking up of rubbish, and the fixing of roads, you run the very real risk of getting voted out by the same voters who put you there in the first place. Sadly, by the time you are kicked out, you would have caused so much damage that it would take a lifetime to fix it.

The ANC has already lost all the metros in the country in the last local elections and the same is going to happen in 2024. VISVIN REDDY | Morningside