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We are all more than well aware of the fact that the Country at the moment is experiencing one of the most severe and worst droughts that is has ever had and that the possibility of it breaking soon being hardly unlikely especially so in view of the El Nino effect on our position in South Africa.
That there are indeed major water shortages can only be blamed on the ruling party, the African National Congress for that matter.
Years yonder, they openly and publicly declared that South Africa would be facing a problem with water supply in the future with that the population is growing and that the present infrastructure of dams is insufficient to supply on the demand that would be set.
Yet as has become so synonymous with the African National Congress, they knew of the problems that would prevail in time to come, but as always did absolutely nothing to try and make long-term plans to alleviate the problem that will arise.
Absolutely no planning to build new dams, in catchment areas (which incidentally would have created employment opportunities and as a synergy have boosted disposable income to the mass unemployed that is in the Country) – government just rested on its laurels!
Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Director Generals and many more in the Department of Water Affairs adopted a laissez faire attitude to say, ‘as and when the problem gets around, we will make a trivial effort to address it and just shut up the masses in their demand for water’, all of which would be short term solutions, but with absolutely no long term solutions and planning.
Driving and walking around in society it is shocking to see to what extent people will go to try and get and have access to water. People on the street are drinking water from fire hydrants, scooping water from storm water overflows on roads, utilising opportunities wherever a possible water leak appears in accumulating water – all of which is such a sad state of affairs to witness.
It is not only people, but also animals that suffer. Livestock is dying in their quest and search for water and farmers have to dispose of their livestock to at least get some kind of income, compared to losing everything as and when they die.
Government is now allocating ‘supposed millions’ to alleviate the problem, but those actions are short term solutions, and the entire saga of water and the lack thereof should have been addressed at the time when it became known that we in this country would in the future be faced with serious problems in respect of not enough water to serve the population.
The water crisis and the lack of planning to address and find solutions to it, is but a carbon copy of what we experienced when we had ‘load shedding’ as there was not enough electricity to serve the people.
So on two major aspects the African National Congress failed us dismally – electricity and water, and at the end of the day they just couldn’t care less about those that suffer and the damage that they cause as long as they live in sumptuous luxury and can accumulate vast millions for when they will be no more be.
That they should be trusted to govern the country for a day longer would be an act of self-suicide!
Issued by: www.bolsheviksapartysa.org.
