We are building SA, but politicians are holding us back
Do you want to know the secret to happiness? If you want serenity in your life, never feel sorry for a politician or allow their actions to get to you. Despite what they say on the back of vans during election time, or in parliament while manoeuvring for power, it is important to take it with a pinch of salt. One thing you should feel sorry for is the citizens of South Africa who constantly get kicked around like footballs on a dusty township field. Like that field, we have been neglected after promises of greener pastures. Victims of empty promises. Politicians may gloat and clap themselves on the back for outmanoeuvring each other, as ActionSA did after last year’s local elections and the EFF did after Wednesday’s ousting of Ekurhuleni mayor Tania Campbell, but it is us that they pull a fast one over time and time again. The EFF abstained from the vote to remove Campbell this week, without explaining their decision- not even to those who voted for them. It probably slipped their mind