IS SOUTH AFRICAN DEMOCRACY FOR SALE?

Many things come into mind when we have to discuss whether is our democracy really for sale, when we are have experience 19 years of freedom but people are free but yet not being compensated. When there are still inequalities and huge gap that continues to grow between the rich and poor in south Africa.

These leave statements into whether in this present time that being a government official is to serve the people or for self-enrichment. When our people have to hold mass protect about service delivery and basic needs such as clean water and sanitation. With us having experienced the Marikana Massacre is like we never take much home to learn from our mistake, that the poor miners have to lose their lives fighting for the just merely salary, when almost every government official have to play a puppet to mining houses for simple reasons of just protecting mere stake of shares they are given to exploit our people from demanding what is their rights.

Youth League structures are disbanded for calling a nationalisation of mines because they are stepping in the investment of the capitalist in the name of government. Is there really democracy when miners strike and are not given what they deserve , but yet in farming there are amendments made to salaries because that is not what officials in government have bet their money on for investment. As if we never learned from that Marikana massacre, when our troops are taken to Central African Republic and other countries just to protect individual interest of oil investments at government expense.

When we experience the Era of the Gupta’s who can just land their planes in an area of restriction and yet no one can account to that in all departments of government. We continue to experience communities with rich mineral but poor people, less infrastructure and development, because mines cannot account for their actions. Our area of residence is called ghost towns simply because of no community beneficiation in mining and yet we are affected by chemical erupting from the same mines. We are here to advocate for what is in our own right and right of our communities, as GUBICO we shall continue to remain the voice to the voiceless. Aluta Continua.