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SOUTH African workers better off under apartheid than under ANC
BY
A SOUTH AFRICAN black trade unionist
Date Posted: Saturday 27-Oct-2007
South
African 'casual workers' were better off under apartheid than they are now
under ANC-rule, says COSATU's general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi.
The COSATU trade union movement forms part of the tricameral leadership of
South Africa, together with the SA Communist Party and the Xhosa-tribe
dominated African National Congress.
"Many millions who are unemployed, or whose jobs have been made casual (not
guaranteed employment; turn up each day to see if there is any work for that
day), are even worse off than they were under apartheid. Around 20
million of our people are still mired in poverty,' Vavi said.
South Africa has 46-million residents. (But about 3-million are from
Zimbabwe and unknown numbers from the rest of Africa including Nigeria)
Vavi said president Thabo Mbeki's so-called "Growth, Employment and
Redistribution policy (Gear) from 1996, 'has led to the scandalous situation
of a supposedly "booming" economy that left 40% of all the workers
unemployed.
The only people who have benefited from this 'booming economy' were the
upper layer of about 500 Xhosa elitist families, who have made themselves
filthy-rich.
Source URL:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2210487,00.html
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Comment by
Brian Deller.
And the fact
that the Rand is worth a fraction of what it was 10 to 15 years ago under
Apartheid even with international sanctions against the old government,
means that casual workers effectively earn less, have serious problems with
health care, education where fees and uniforms, etc. need to be paid for and
can only expect a meagre State pension when they are too old to work, which
with the average life expectancies falling each year now, is long before the
official retirement ages in the West. And the SA government
diverts millions of Rands away from building new hospitals, school facilities, roads
and for combating serious crime all to build new stadiums and refurbish existing
ones for the FIFA Soccer World Cup in 2010. Form your own opinions.
And to think I was one of the idiots who
voted to end Apartheid in 1992.
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'Gauteng (Transvaal) rejected 22 hospitals'
Johannesburg - The Democratic
Alliance (opposition party) is questioning the Gauteng health department's
rejection of 22 out of 50 applications for new private hospitals and
clinics in the past seven years. Jack Bloom, the party's Gauteng health
spokesperson, said on Monday it was "crazy" to turn down so many proposals
by the private health sector. "(They) would have provided 2 192 extra beds
and 68 operating theatres in Gauteng." The DA was reacting after a written
reply by Gauteng health MEC Brian Hlongwa to questions by Bloom.
"It restricts competition that is
necessary to bring down high private medical costs. What justification is
there for interfering so blatantly in the health-care market?" asked Bloom.
Some of the applications turned down were a planned 350-bed hospital at
Uncle Charlie's, three applications for a 120-bed hospital at Southgate and
a 200-bed hospital at Soccer City.
An oncology centre at Rosebank, a
maternity clinic in Johannesburg inner city, and hospitals in
Bronkhorstspruit, Krugersdorp, Waterfall City (Midrand) and Irene also were
turned down. Bloom said consumers were being denied a health facility near
where they lived. The government should stop stifling private hospitals and
restrict its licensing role to safety standards. "We should welcome extra
investment in private health care as this will make it more affordable
because of competition and take the strain off our public hospitals," he
said.
Link:
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2113245,00.html
Brian Deller comment.
But that is how communism works. Only the State can control services
such as hospitals and schools. But why are they not building more much
needed hospitals? Instead they divert cash for football stadiums.
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NEW ITEM, APRIL 2008
The decline of medical services under the
ANC.
This is a letter on a South African web site
www.rsa-overseas.com, where exessayers and those still living in the
beleaguered SA are able to express their opinions. This letter
concerns a doctor who moved to SA to do some good. Now read how the
lying propaganda by the Marxist Africa National Congress (ANC), the
terrorist organisation that politically and with bombs and guns, is now in
power, since 1994 (yes the same party that Nelson Mandela is in) has raped
South Africa in true African tradition.
STILL WANT TO VISIT THERE ESPECIALLY FOR THE
FIFA SOCCER WORLD CUP IN 2010? You had better have good life as
well as the best medical insurance
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Subject: My last word to
South Africa: Go to hell
This is so true - even a person from
Europe could see what the whites have done for the masses in SA
Friday, April 25, 2008
Disillusioned doctor
says "SA, go to hell!"
Posted by: The Doc, South Africa on 4:44am Tue 26 Feb 08
I'm a northern European medical doctor. A senior surgeon, working in the
public sector of South Africa. I have done so the last 5 years. I do not
want to speak outside my discipline, so this will be about the medical
demise of SA. Most visitors to South Africa, who encounter the public health
sector, do so by visiting a hospital or a clinic in or near the big cities.
What they get to see is a hospital or a clinic, which is working, but not up
to Western standards.
Before I came down here, I believed that pre-94 South Africa had a very good
health care system for the white population, and nothing for the black. I
soon discovered that was not the case. The Calvinistic white rulers of South
Africa had built an elaborate network of public hospitals, reaching the
outermost societies of this large country. We are talking about 5-600 beds
hospitals far out in the rural areas.
Before 1994, they were well manned and equipped, and complicated procedures
were carried out there. I know this. I’ve been to these hospitals and spoken
to the people working there. I have gone through old patient files and
surgical statistics. These were hospitals that catered for the black
population.
This web of hospitals as I can see must have covered more or less 100% of
South Africa’s population, including the former Bantustans or homelands. I
know that the same situation was present as to schools. The ANC run a couple
of campaigns like “Election before education” and “To make the country
ungovernable”. As part of that, most rural schools were burnt down.
Keeping in mind the traditionally very violent African culture down here,
one perfectly do understand why the hospitals built by the apartheid
government, did not suffer the same fate. This has left us with a window to
the past; we can clearly see that the apartheid government did not only care
for their white population, but in fact, also took great responsibility for
the black, at something that must have been an enormous cost.
Back to visiting South African hospitals… When doing so, the visitor will be
shown one of a few hospitals, were not too many windows are broken, not all
the equipment has been vandalized and not all the electric supply has been
cut off. Now, go outside these hospitals, go to the former rural hospitals,
and what do you find? You will find that the hospitals built for the
black population, by the
black ANC government,
have been degraded and left unfunded. You will find hospitals with no
doctors. Hospitals with no electricity. No
X-ray equipment. No furniture. You actually will find old rural hospital
inhabited by squatters!
It is for me a huge paradox that the black government seems to have zero
compassion for their own population, as long as they can get away with it
and no one can or will see it. The black population has not by magic become
so much healthier after 1994 that these hospitals are not needed anymore. Au
contraire, the black population is in dire need of these hospitals, but all
they find are ghost hospitals. Many of whom I’ve visited, are beyond repair.
I am leaving South Africa now. I have paid my dues, and I am forever marked
by Africa in the form of an entry and exit 9 mm bullet hole in my right
upper leg. I got it because my robber was not happy with me handing over
my 10 year old or something Nokia 6110 cell-phone, and some small coins.
No wallet, no rings and only
amalgam fillings… Now, what kind of doctor is that? My last word to South
Africa: Go to hell
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SO WHO VOTED TO END
APARTHEID? I DID (in the 1992 referendum there.) AND I AM SO SORRY FOR
THOSE LEFT SUFFERING, ESPECIALLY ALL THE NOW RACIALLY ABUSED WHITES AND
INDIANS, EVEN THE POOR MISLED BLACK PEOPLE. THEY ALL DESERVE
MUCH BETTER.
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