...while the myopic masses indulge in trivial politics led astray by the ANCÂ’s red herrings, corruption and graft remain endemic and incompetence the order of the day...infrastructure doesnÂ’t get maintained, roads become ever more potholed to the degree where in many places they will simply revert back to gravel, the majority of the countryÂ’s sewerage works donÂ’t function properly, the Vaal River feeding the countryÂ’s economic hub faces an ecological disaster exacerbated by mine acid water drainage, countless municipalities and state departments have become dysfunctional (Public Works being the latest to concede that its systems have collapsed), and all the while taxes and administered prices are skyrocketing to fund a bloated and overpaid civil service (the so-called new middle-class) and layers of deployed cadres in the transformed SOEÂ’s. Fortunately that august organisation is apparently moving forward(!), guided by its collective wisdom and brilliance...and mercifully resource nationalisation is no longer considered a threat? The foundation for sustainable progress has been laid...let the looting continue.
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