Lindiwe Sisulu, minister of water and sanitation said on Tuesday that 24 Cuban engineers would be arriving in South Africa to help with the problems now being encountered at water and sanitation plants.
Firstly this is a problem created by members of the ANC who misappropriated funds that were meant for routine maintenance of these plants. As long as the plants were working and no sewage was gushing down the streets or flowing into the dams and rivers, who cared?
Secondly, according to the ANC policy (BEE and all the other acronyms) all white qualified engineers who had for years maintained these plants, were laid off to go sit at home as there was no available work for them. The few who were able to leave the country were snapped up by other countries as they are fully aware of the quality of engineers produced at our universities. Those left here have offered their services to the government to clean up the mess. But to no avail.
Because they are white (mainly male) the government would lose face if they had to be hired to now fix up this great stinking mess which has become a country wide problem. This spillage of raw sewage is found in our great cities as well as rural areas.
Where once South Africa could pride itself on having some of the cleanest rivers and dams and drinking water in the world, this is no longer the case by a long shot. The impurities in our water have risen to such levels that it is no longer safe to use any untreated water.
So Sisulu arranges to bring in more Cubans to fill jobs that could be given to South Africans. We have already had Cuban teachers, doctors and engineers who couldn’t speak English or any African language here before. No significant help, advances or changes have occurred by importing Cubans instead of using local people. One starts to wonder if the ANC isnt busy with yet another case of siphoning off more millions of the taxpayers money? We know they have no money to really pay for the next elections so just maybe?
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