Reaping the whirlwind of neglect
The failure of service delivery isn’t confined to remote (or large) municipalities. The collapse in infrastructure in provinces such as KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape is just as intractable — and may even be harder to fix
09 February 2023 - 05:00
Justice Fund CEO Lorenzo Davids is speaking for a nation when he tells the FM: “Within 30 years [the government] not only deferred our dreams but also killed them — [it] switched off power and told us that dreaming is not allowed any more.”
Davids, a former government official and veteran of various nonprofits, says government officials make themselves visible every five years, handing out loaves of bread. “That’s all we are allowed to dream of — a loaf of bread every five years. That’s the tragic outcome of a government that makes promises that their officials have no intention to fulfil.”..
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