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Opvallend is dat dit veral deur verontwaardigde swartmense gemaak word \u2013 presies diegene wat die akuutste behoefte gehad het om aan Apartheid te ontkom en by uitstek by die nuwe bedeling moes baat vind. <\/p>\n<p>Die regering is glad nie ernstig om die beurtkrag-probleem op te los nie. Die matrieks van 2022 het hul hele skoolloopbaan deur beurtkrag ervaar. Beurtkrag veroorsaak angs, trauma en woede. \u2019n Mens is sommer kwaad vir jou vrou en jou hond, al het hulle niks verkeerd gedoen nie. <\/p>\n<p>Japan, Suid-Afrika se vierde grootste uitvoermark, het reeds gewys sy geduld is op. Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa is nie op die gastelys vir die G7-beraad in Hirosjima nie. Ramaphosa is nie genooi nie omdat Suid-Afrika nie langer namens die vasteland kan praat nie, het Japan ges\u00ea. Ons Suid-Afrikaners sien en hoor gereeld hoe ons regering onbeholpe rondval, ondeurdagte besluite neem en bontpraat. Geen haan kraai daarna nie; niemand aanvaar verantwoordelikheid nie en ons moet maar die gevolge dra. <\/p>\n<p>Ons het \u2019n baie patetiese regering. As \u2019n leerder tydens \u2019n skooluitstappie verdrink, word daar teen die skoolhoof opgetree, maar as tientalle seuns by inisiasieskole sterf, is die regering tjoepstil. <\/p>\n<p>Ek het onlangs ons kollege-re\u00fcnie bygewoon en kollegas n\u00e1 byna 50 jaar weer gesien.<\/p>\n<p>Ek was geskok omdat elke tweede kollega se kinders oorsee woon en werk as dokters, tandartse, onderwysers, prokureurs en ingenieurs. Die \u201c<span>braindrain<\/span>\u201d vind dus ook geweldig vinnig plaas onder die bruin- en swartmense. <\/p>\n<p>Minister Pravin Gordhan s\u00ea Andr\u00e9 de Ruyter se boek is vol leuens, maar erken terselfdertyd dat hy nie die boek gelees het nie. Dis net in Suid-Afrika waar jy sulke sotlikheid sal kry. Hy moet liewer die name, wat De Ruyter vir hom gegee het van mense wat by Eskom-korrupsie betrokke was, bekend maak. Ons weet egter in Suid-Afrika gaan net die klein vissies tronk toe terwyl die grotes rustig verder swem. <\/p>\n<p>Ons gewone mense hou hierdie land se ekonomie, sport en baie ander dinge sonder die regering se hulp aan die gang. By bruin en swart skole is daar egter geen sportfasiliteite nie, maar Nathi Mtetwa wou \u2019n vlagpaal van R22 miljoen oprig! Sies! <\/p>\n<p>Ongeveer 300 000 mense het die afgelope jaar hul werk weens beurtkrag verloor. Dit traak hierdie regering natuurlik glad nie. Hulle het meer bek as binnegoed. 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