LETTER: Lack of storage is damning, but typical
African liberation movements tend to believe infrastructure doesn’t need maintaining
Your article about SA’s inability to store the current good rains paints a sorry picture (“Copious rain with too little storage means too little future gain (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2021-02-08-copious-rain-with-too-little-storage-means-too-little-future-gain/)”, February 8). African liberation movements tend to believe infrastructure is something that lasts forever and doesn’t need maintaining, and the ANC is no exception. This explains why we are always short of electricity and water.
The government is like a family that is constantly arguing about who owns the cow while ignoring the increasingly empty larder. Only after they have eaten the cow do they contemplate what happens next...
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