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By Mancha wa ga Mashilo:A Political activist, a political analyst, a writer, an academic and soldier at heart
Misdiagnosis by the SA government since 1994
The main issue with our South African government since 1994, is a problem of 'Misdiagnosis'
Like a Medical Practitioner misdiagnosing Tension-Pneumothorax or Pulmonary Embolism, he will punish himself forever following the autopsy which revealed lack of diagnosing expertise leading to loss of life. These two are of the easiest medical emergencies to easily diagnose or mis-diagnosis, but the most fatal if the Medical Practitioner can neglected clinical anatomy as crux of his/ her medical practice.
I use the example above because our beloved post 1994 government was so passionate about treating problems of the past with protocol of a wrong diagnosis. They neglected the crux of geographical anatomy when they were diagnosing problems influenced by the injustices of the past.
I agree, there was and there is an ailment of our society predisposed and perpetuated by the injustice of the apartheid era. Yes and a BIG YES, South Africa is a better country than it was pre- 1994. All thanks to the descendants of Jan van Riebeeck.
When our government used all available avenues to manage a misdiagnosis of injustices of the past issuing the etiology of poverty, that was the beginning of the downfall of black empowerment and black economic emancipation and thus sudden crippling of our mother land. When a Medical practitioner who used all available measures and resources,the pertinent negatives and positives, to substantiate his hypothesis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis on a patient who presented with shortness of breath and who in actual fact suffering from Tension pneumothorax, time was ticking and so does the life of the deceased.
Like the apartheid used skin color as a Criteria to misdiagnose supremacy instead of equal in diversity, a rainbow nation, they ultimately ruined supreme and celebrate their achievement. I bet in their national building pledges, they too were maybe saying, 'Zuid Afrikaansche Republic is a better country than it was before 1652.'
When the ANC government comes confidently and says, "South Africa is a better country than it was before 1994.", I fully agree, we are now noticed as people because of some patriotic leaders. However, if the same government fails to diagnose economic-inequality secondary to black marginalization from the economic centers of South Africa, I have a feeling we are moving very drastically to nowhere. What a misdiagnosis!They use lack-of-housing as their Diagnosis, not even provisionally so. Our government comes to us every year during the State of the Nation address to tell us they build 2.4 million RDPs since 1994, this reminded me of that Medical practitioner who confidently escorted his patient to death-ville by misdiagnosing the hypothesis.
I say this is misdiagnoses because this's as an injustice to marginalize the black-people from economic hubs to consider lack of housing as the final diagnosis instead of a symptom. To the benefit of the doubt, let's say this was an empirical treatment, we black indeed needed houses. This could however be taken as a support major like when a medical practitioner gives a pain medication to a patient who is suffering from Pulmonary Embolism(PE). The pain medication will ease the pain, but won't stop the patient from deteriorating and that's rather a symptomatic treatment. The practitioner after considering PE as a differential diagnosis, considering its emergent and fatal nature, will indeed consider thrombolytic therapy or anticoagulant ion therapy to first facilitate perfusion in edition to pain control.
So our government might have made a symptomatic management of housing in our township, but they neglected the main hypothesis predisposed by injustices of the past which is marginalizing the black. They go to those same places appointed by the selfish Apartheid government, with no business activity, and still perpetuate marginalization of blacks by the Apartheid regime with RDPs. I say so because a black person occupying the same post as a white person, earning the same salary, still lives a poorer life. Let alone that whites benefited tremendously from Apartheid. An estimated Quarter of the salary of that black person is still used on transportation to go to work whereas a white counterpart uses 1/16 of his salary to go to work monthly. Black people further more use an estimated 1/16 of their salary on petrol to do their shopping, etc. that is not Black economic emancipation, that still makes whites even more advantaged than blacks economically. Don't tell me about few blacks who stay in the suburban areas and say at least, no, they still suffer from a crazy bond interests from the banks.
So to claim success on RDP houses whereas there's eight(8) members of the family living there with no plan how to put food on the table is rather agonizing. The cities are saturated, and they don't have money to transport themselves to economic centers in cities for employment. In the flip view, you have done them no justice. This houses will soon fall, they come after you!!!
We see bodies which support our constitution and democracy lease their offices in Urban areas, what a shame. IEC? What a shame.
For the government to bring pride to the blacks, they first should stop leasing on their own land. Diagnose the problem of economic inequality secondary to marginalization of blacks to the economic hubs of the nation properly.
And solutions to that are:
1. The first thing is to subject all the government institutions head quarters to be distributed and installed in townships, nothing in urban areas. The benefits to that are A. A black child will at-least grow knowing what they mean when they talk of the Department of Mineral Energy, what professions are found there, and how much a teenager leaving matriculation need to score on his standards to get into those programs and develop.
B. A black mother/ father need not spend much money on transport to go to work.
C. They now start developing their surrounding areas because it's close to work and
D. As such the investors will see an exceptional target group and start investing in these townships.
E. Therefore, the townships which were once marginalized become the economic hubs of this beautiful nation.
I now pledge on the government to review its diagnosis before they lose this vulnerable patient in a form of a black person in a township, who entrusted his life on it, before it loses this beautiful black brother.
We are losing patience!!!
By Mancha wa ga Mashilo
Misdiagnosis by the SA government since 1994
The main issue with our South African government since 1994, is a problem of 'Misdiagnosis'
Like a Medical Practitioner misdiagnosing Tension-Pneumothorax or Pulmonary Embolism, he will punish himself forever following the autopsy which revealed lack of diagnosing expertise leading to loss of life. These two are of the easiest medical emergencies to easily diagnose or mis-diagnosis, but the most fatal if the Medical Practitioner can neglected clinical anatomy as crux of his/ her medical practice.
I use the example above because our beloved post 1994 government was so passionate about treating problems of the past with protocol of a wrong diagnosis. They neglected the crux of geographical anatomy when they were diagnosing problems influenced by the injustices of the past.
I agree, there was and there is an ailment of our society predisposed and perpetuated by the injustice of the apartheid era. Yes and a BIG YES, South Africa is a better country than it was pre- 1994. All thanks to the descendants of Jan van Riebeeck.
When our government used all available avenues to manage a misdiagnosis of injustices of the past issuing the etiology of poverty, that was the beginning of the downfall of black empowerment and black economic emancipation and thus sudden crippling of our mother land. When a Medical practitioner who used all available measures and resources,the pertinent negatives and positives, to substantiate his hypothesis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis on a patient who presented with shortness of breath and who in actual fact suffering from Tension pneumothorax, time was ticking and so does the life of the deceased.
Like the apartheid used skin color as a Criteria to misdiagnose supremacy instead of equal in diversity, a rainbow nation, they ultimately ruined supreme and celebrate their achievement. I bet in their national building pledges, they too were maybe saying, 'Zuid Afrikaansche Republic is a better country than it was before 1652.'
When the ANC government comes confidently and says, "South Africa is a better country than it was before 1994.", I fully agree, we are now noticed as people because of some patriotic leaders. However, if the same government fails to diagnose economic-inequality secondary to black marginalization from the economic centers of South Africa, I have a feeling we are moving very drastically to nowhere. What a misdiagnosis!They use lack-of-housing as their Diagnosis, not even provisionally so. Our government comes to us every year during the State of the Nation address to tell us they build 2.4 million RDPs since 1994, this reminded me of that Medical practitioner who confidently escorted his patient to death-ville by misdiagnosing the hypothesis.
I say this is misdiagnoses because this's as an injustice to marginalize the black-people from economic hubs to consider lack of housing as the final diagnosis instead of a symptom. To the benefit of the doubt, let's say this was an empirical treatment, we black indeed needed houses. This could however be taken as a support major like when a medical practitioner gives a pain medication to a patient who is suffering from Pulmonary Embolism(PE). The pain medication will ease the pain, but won't stop the patient from deteriorating and that's rather a symptomatic treatment. The practitioner after considering PE as a differential diagnosis, considering its emergent and fatal nature, will indeed consider thrombolytic therapy or anticoagulant ion therapy to first facilitate perfusion in edition to pain control.
So our government might have made a symptomatic management of housing in our township, but they neglected the main hypothesis predisposed by injustices of the past which is marginalizing the black. They go to those same places appointed by the selfish Apartheid government, with no business activity, and still perpetuate marginalization of blacks by the Apartheid regime with RDPs. I say so because a black person occupying the same post as a white person, earning the same salary, still lives a poorer life. Let alone that whites benefited tremendously from Apartheid. An estimated Quarter of the salary of that black person is still used on transportation to go to work whereas a white counterpart uses 1/16 of his salary to go to work monthly. Black people further more use an estimated 1/16 of their salary on petrol to do their shopping, etc. that is not Black economic emancipation, that still makes whites even more advantaged than blacks economically. Don't tell me about few blacks who stay in the suburban areas and say at least, no, they still suffer from a crazy bond interests from the banks.
So to claim success on RDP houses whereas there's eight(8) members of the family living there with no plan how to put food on the table is rather agonizing. The cities are saturated, and they don't have money to transport themselves to economic centers in cities for employment. In the flip view, you have done them no justice. This houses will soon fall, they come after you!!!
We see bodies which support our constitution and democracy lease their offices in Urban areas, what a shame. IEC? What a shame.
For the government to bring pride to the blacks, they first should stop leasing on their own land. Diagnose the problem of economic inequality secondary to marginalization of blacks to the economic hubs of the nation properly.
And solutions to that are:
1. The first thing is to subject all the government institutions head quarters to be distributed and installed in townships, nothing in urban areas. The benefits to that are A. A black child will at-least grow knowing what they mean when they talk of the Department of Mineral Energy, what professions are found there, and how much a teenager leaving matriculation need to score on his standards to get into those programs and develop.
B. A black mother/ father need not spend much money on transport to go to work.
C. They now start developing their surrounding areas because it's close to work and
D. As such the investors will see an exceptional target group and start investing in these townships.
E. Therefore, the townships which were once marginalized become the economic hubs of this beautiful nation.
I now pledge on the government to review its diagnosis before they lose this vulnerable patient in a form of a black person in a township, who entrusted his life on it, before it loses this beautiful black brother.
We are losing patience!!!
By Mancha wa ga Mashilo
