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LETTER TO THE EDITOR David Sebelebele writes: The DA and all tax-payers in and around Modimolle greet with disgust the ANC Chief Whip’s ill-conceived council meeting boycott. The latter in cahoots with other rogue ANC councillors spearheaded council setting boycott in a bid to derail all-important council meeting during which such pressing issues as massive irregular selling of RDP houses and calendar-related scandal would have been canvassed. DA in Modimolle once again note with great concern that even the number one citizen of Modimolle, Mayor, Kgaretsa Lekalakala, has also been at the forefront of the misplaced council sitting boycott. Is the Mayor not supposed to oversee all legal mechanisms designed to curb malpractices in all their manifestations? What is she then paid mega bucks for? No amount of council sitting boycott will successfully dispel the ANC’s involvement in the mega bucks calendar scandal. The DA will stop at nothing to draw on debate power to beget requisite accountability from the ANC and finally brought them to book. The DA in Modimolle wants to congratulate both the Council Speaker, Councillor Sechele Sebolai SA, and his service-driven lieutenant, Municipal Manager, Sam Bambo, for mastering the courage and wisdom for allowing issues like RDP house selling and calendar scandal to make it to council agenda. This is precisely what they are handsomely remunerated for. The DA in Modimolle assures all Modimolle communities that it will do everything humanly imaginable to have justice done to concerns canvassed immediately above including opening “a fat criminal case” with the Hawks.
A goalkeeper relaxing in the goalpost during game against Teekay All Stars and Mountain View. Photo: TK Mashaba.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Nkhosinathi Ndhlovu, a Bela-Bela resident, writes: I think now is the time for us as the youth of this country to stand up and stop complaining. This country must benefit from us. Don’t be lazy, use your mind and your talent. Sitting on a corner and pointing fingers at other people will not help you. God gave us hands and brains to use them, and we are lucky to live in this country — this country does what it needs to give us a better education. The South African government invests a lot in education. Each and every year when the new budget is announced, a lot of money is spent on education. But what do we do? Nothing. We don’t take our education seriously; we spend our time with alcohol and drugs. Those things affect our future. People drop out of school and then come and sit on the corner and demand that the government must give them jobs. We blame the government for service delivery, but the same government we blame, is the one that gives us free education. Education is the key to success. Remember our late former president Nelson Mandela once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world.” Let us use this weapon to change our country by adding skills. If we take education more seriously we can produce more skilled workers. We must meet government halfway, and the only way to do that is to take education seriously. When you walk through the townships, you will be pained by the sight of the youth destroying their own futures. Young boys are smoking nyaope, and young girls have sugar daddies. Guys, we are destroying our own lives. Who is going to change this? Who is going to make this country proud? There are shortages of doctors, engineers and artisans in our country. What does this mean to us? It means that our government is investing taxpayer money’s in us, but we are not taking advantage. Let us stand up and take this opportunity to equip ourselves. Now is the time to give back to our country, and if we use this opportunity I am optimistic that our country will only get better.