CORRUPTION– Africa’s Disease

Corruption has reached its peak in South Africa and the people can’t take it anymore. Corruption is not new to us, but its pace is now alarming. This year the ministers splashed on cars, houses and other untold gadgets. Whilst the country was heavily hit by recession, corruption inflated. It is no wonder that people in Mpumalanga have become violent – enough is enough.

The government, whilst campaigning, promised to turn South Africa into a paradise, where people would work together, jobs created, water and electricity in every corner, smooth roads, good services – the list is endless. Although citizens acknowledge and appreciate government’s effort to ‘create a better society for all’, we would like to see corruption in all spheres of the economy being curbed urgently, in order to preserve the future of this beautiful country.

We have seen enough flames, rubber bullets attempting to silence fuming citizens – whilst corruption, the cause of this chaos is on the rise. Mpumalanga residents openly displayed their rage towards their municipality, and this led to many of municipal leaders being fired. I would like to congratulate the government on this and I hope it is just the beginning of rooting out corruption and corrupt individuals. I look forward to seeing many corrupt officials being fired, even though this means there will be very few, if any left.

On the violence side – everyone seems to blame the residents for violence, not considering the fact that they might have exhausted all options. Violence is wrong, but at the present moment, it seems to be solving problems faster. The Mpumalanga officials are now fired but in some parts of the country, where corruption is also rife nothing has happened as yet.

The people of the South know that sometimes violence is the solution to some problems. Apartheid was not removed by dignified talks, there were fires, bullets and blood, and corruption might also be removed by the same scourge.

By Babalwa Sibango