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1995.06.20
Firstly I would like to make it clear I have for years
supported that all people have a right to all things God has created.
I
have been staying in the above residential area for the last 5 years and upto
about 6 months ago it was a pleasure. I stay opposite
a park aswell as next to
a shopping centre. Lately over week-ends it has become a haven for those not
working and for domestic
workers too with their partners to gather around in the
afternoons which is all verywell but when they start having loud music leaving
their litter, paperbasgs, beer bottles etc. on the ground although their are
dustbins.
I have spoken more than once to a few to please pick-up their
mess as it blows into our garden aswell as leaving the park in a mesh.
This
long week-end it was a disaster I had to phone the Parow police twice which they
can varify. After they came out the police
lady was insulted, her hair pulled
and it was a complete mochery of the system, which in term is a mockery of the
government because
they represent the government. Stricter rules should be laid
down with regards to leaving bottles, litter in parks. What will the
tourists
think when they see this. You do not find squatting infront of government
homes.
Why don't they introduce Kabutz like in Israel where people are
taught to work, build up their own gardens, vegtables etc. If the
Government of
the day does not lay down stronger rules we might aswell turn S.A. into a slum
because some people have disregard for
discipline aswell as having self respect.
Therefore they should be put into work to let them gain self respect for
themselves aswell
as other peoples property. I do not wish to be a police
officer in this new S.A. they are treated like dirt which I have seen with
my
own eyes. Today I woke up with a lady squatter squatting right infront of the
doctors practice, opposite my house I do not know
whether she is being put upto
it,
I spoke to her as she had a little boy with her and told her the
welfare would take the child away if they saw this.
She ignored me. I told
her to go to coloured affairs dept. for help but she still ignored
me.
Secondly it has become a pain to go to a shop wherever you go you
have the alcoholics/squatters forcing you to a parking and you have
to pay them
although you have to pay for the parking area aswell. If you do not, variably
your car has got a scratch on or some
damage is made to it. What a sick New
S.A. this is. Does the new government of the day want all working class people
to leave this
beautiful country and let it turn into a third world. Why do they
not have Bobby policemen like in England to footpatrole which
will create work
for some.
Thirdly Dr. Zuma wants to create this new medical system but
who ends up paying again, the working class, which is grippeling the
country
with more and more people leaving because of rising cost of living. She means
well. Why don't they stop handing out golden
handsake/pension to ministers,
which the old government was critized for and the new government is also doing
for minister that have
not even done six months work and use that money for
Medical. Also stop going overseas by now all countries know what S.A. needs
are
and if they really wanted to assist would have done so already and stop wasting
the tax payers money on such expenses and use
it for the above.
Why
should Government officials earn such fantastic salaries when most of the time
they get collected to go to work, therefore do
not have to spend any money on
travelling and others perks which the normal person has to cough up every month
to survive. Our system
has not really changed has it?
Mary
Knapp
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