LETTER: New parties would perpetuate ANC’s fiscal follies
New entrants assume the government has access to unlimited amounts of money
28 April 2024 - 14:54
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Rise Mzansi Leader Songezo Zibi addresses the media at the Launch of the new Movement at Costitutional Hill in Braamfontein Johannesburg. Picture: Freddy Mavunda/Business Day
When I read all the election promises of considerable increases in social grants and salaries for domestic workers, it is clear that the country is doomed to fail.
The same mistake that has caused serious problems for the ANC is being repeated by other parties, which assume the government has access to unlimited amounts of money. That may explain why we have so many new political parties contesting the May 29 elections. They will only realise how wrong they are when service delivery comes to a sudden standstill because the funds have run out.
Perhaps those who took over from the previous government had reason to be fooled, but right now the democratic government has no money, so the new political parties must move with caution before they run into serious problems that may be hard to reverse.
Cometh Dube-Makholwa Midrand
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LETTER: New parties would perpetuate ANC’s fiscal follies
New entrants assume the government has access to unlimited amounts of money
When I read all the election promises of considerable increases in social grants and salaries for domestic workers, it is clear that the country is doomed to fail.
The same mistake that has caused serious problems for the ANC is being repeated by other parties, which assume the government has access to unlimited amounts of money. That may explain why we have so many new political parties contesting the May 29 elections. They will only realise how wrong they are when service delivery comes to a sudden standstill because the funds have run out.
Perhaps those who took over from the previous government had reason to be fooled, but right now the democratic government has no money, so the new political parties must move with caution before they run into serious problems that may be hard to reverse.
Cometh Dube-Makholwa
Midrand
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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