LETTER: The ANC sacked the competent people
That’s why education, health and security are in a mess
In discussing the decline in SA’s public services Jonny Steinberg neatly confuses the chicken and the egg (“The road from private schools to two nations (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2021-05-20-jonny-steinberg-the-road-from-private-schools-to-two-nations/)”, May 20).
Education, health and security have fallen into the abyss of incompetence not because the so-called middle classes gratuitously abandoned them, but because the ANC, on taking power, sacked the competent people who had been running them and stuffed them with useless party hacks, leaving many people no alternative but to go for private options...
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