LETTER: ANC has let down the poor
Previously disadvantaged have been deprived of a chance to succeed
Apartheid will be remembered for discrimination and inhumane treatment of people of colour. However, the ANC government will also be remembered for discrimination. It has behaved badly towards the poor, and indeed its own voters, by supplying substandard education and bankrupting state-owned enterprises, to the detriment of thousands of workers.
Its ministers dare not use state health facilities, and most of their children are at private schools in SA and abroad. Billions of rand earmarked for the removal of asbestos from houses occupied by the poor were stolen, thereby depriving the previously disadvantaged of their chance to succeed. Those who were responsible are all leaders, high up in the ANC...
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