Change? Don’t be so gullible

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The Ekurhuleni mayor is big on crowing about the supposed achievements of the ANC in our metro.

The only snag is that there must be a parallel metro because many of us with a modicum of intelligence and partial eyesight can see the squalor and degeneration in the metro area we reside in.

We can point out the myriad potholes and poor/no road maintenance, the many non-working street lights, the regular bursts of high-pressure water pipes and the lack of maintenance on electrical substations. And nothing will improve.

I don’t know how the metro achieves a clean audit in some areas of operation when we read about financial irregularities, suspension of senior personnel for many months and housing developments costing millions that are incomplete and being vandalised.

Many of us who travel to the parkrun on a Saturday have wondered about the partially finished, now an eyesore, “development” in the Boksburg stadium. My wife informed me it was where the Ekurhuleni’s dog unit was to be based.

Marius de Vos, the DA councillor for the ward, (via an article in the Boksburg Advertiser) tells us the latter cost us R6-million and now it is essentially “scrap”.

It probably falls under the euphemistically termed heading “wasteful expenditure”.

The hard fact is that there are probably many more “developments” similar to the above where the dodgy, inflated tender processes allowed the connected to disappear with millions.

Being in power for 20-plus years allows insidious rot to spread throughout.

The Ekurhuleni metro is merely an extension of what has been happening at national and provincial levels, albeit on a much smaller scale. Cyril ‘I’m shocked’ Ramaphosa trots around telling all that things will change if you vote ANC on May 8.

Don’t be so gullible.

The same team is still there, and here’s the scary part: Who says Ramaphosa will be the ANC leader after the next ANC conference? Remember what happened to Mbeki. It’s too ghastly to contemplate having another Zuma in the form of Ace Magashule.