People born in the 1960’s and 1970’s should be retired by now so that those of us who were born in the 1980’s, 1990’s and the year 2000 can also get the chance to earn our living.
Those who were born in the above-mentioned years should have already managed to buy houses and cars by now, but that’s sadly not how it is. Like those of us who are young and unemployed they too can’t afford to own a house much less to buy a car! But they are working and earning WHAT A SHAME.
There is no denying the fact that the cost of living is too high these days but those who are working especially in government facilities should at least manage to afford decent housing but no… most of them are staying in state owned properties, some are renting because they simply cannot qualify to buy houses. Worst of all the so called government is reluctant to give these poor struggling workers a share of their pension money early as they claim that there will be penalties for them if they are given their money. Even a blind man can see how old and tired most of these government workers are but they are forced to work until they reach the age of 60 anyway. It’s really sad because even though they are working most of them are drowning deep in debts living from hand to mouth, some even depend on loan sharks in order to make ends meet. Only a few can afford to take loans from banks due to bad credit record.
Nowadays the youth including those who are graduates are forced to make career changes or opt for any other available jobs no matter how shitty the wages are because of high unemployment rate in the country. Private companies are using labor brokers to employ people. Even those jobs are nothing but mere contracts with a short expiry date, we simply don’t have any stable jobs anymore. The ANC government promised to create more jobs after it became a ruling party in 1994 but we still don’t see any difference whatsoever in terms of job creation to this day.
What the ANC government did instead is introduce tender system that only benefits ‘them’, by ‘them’ I mean the people in high places. They give those tenders to their family members and friends overlooking the most qualifying applicants for those tenders. No one up there seem to care one bit about the suffering working class folks.
Not that I am glorifying the apartheid government but at least then things weren’t as dire as they are today jobwise. Back then there used to be railway police and municipal security personnel who safe guarded the premises and made sure that the infrastructure stayed intact and nothing got vandalized. But today we have contracts which don’t even abide by the bargaining council.
Kante Senzeni as Mzansi to deserve this?
Black people are enriching themselves at the expense of other black people. There is no hope for the ruling party anymore and quite frankly I doubt there will ever be hope ever again in it.
Umuntu omnyama waze walimosha izwe lethu!
The parliament is full of amakhehla noGogo but they have the nerve and the audacity to make age restriction of 18-35 whenever they are advertising posts, but everyone is voting from the age of 18 and beyond, where is democracy in that? They create unnecessary barriers for the youth to break into the job market by demanding work experience but conveniently the president can shuffle and reshuffle the cabinet as he pleases. A minister of transport can be made a minister of health without having any experience whatsoever for the new post he/she is given on a silver platter.
It’s time to take down the ANC government come the elections of 2024! Young men and young women of South Africa you deserve better. Make the right decision for yourselves when casting your votes. They promised us free education but we still have lots of students dropping out of universities and colleges because of lack of finance. We are being taken for a ride by the ANC and that must come to an end!
ALUTA CONTINUA…..
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