LETTER: Quandary created by ANC
Full employment would have eliminated poverty and overcrowding in which pandemics thrive
Observers have been unanimous in their praise for the government’s action on the coronavirus pandemic. In so doing they should not overlook that the problem is largely of the ANC government’s own doing. SA is, sadly, on the verge of witnessing thousands of virus-related deaths owing to the millions of unemployed living in appalling conditions. These poor souls may justifiably blame their lot on an ANC government that has destroyed the economy.
In the short space of 25 years the ANC has embraced globally discredited socialist economic practices. It has created a bloated public sector that has gone a long way towards crowding out an efficient private sector. It has, in the process, employed a huge army of overpaid, inept public servants; supported state-owned enterprises run by grossly underqualified executives and employees, enabled (nay, encouraged) state capture and its accompanying widespread looting of the country’s financial resources; made 18m people dependent on social g...
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