LONG MARCH TO ENSLAVEMENT

Sir,

Our labour laws are such, that employing anyone (Blacks especially) is just not a good idea - we might as well be living in a communist state. It's worrying because costs are rising and our govermoont keeps inventing new taxes - to pay for their luxuries. The political scene is somewhat like it was when the ANC was doing their best to make the country ungovernable. Now it's the ANCYL (the youth league) against the ANC (or at least against Zuma). The result is that corruption is rife, murder rate rising, violent crime etc, etc. It has been a gradual process, so most do not realise how much living standards have declined. But if one takes a proper and honest assessment of the situation, the lowering of standards is clearly apparent. Filth in the streets, water quality and availability (despite high prices) is dubious, constant electricity failures (and so called load shedding). Apparently 70% of electricity generated is not paid for (the same goes for water).

State hospitals are best avoided, schooling standards have been lowered so that the dumbest are promoted. My daughter's son went to St Henrys (catholic school nearby) for a short while. She told me that the big fat Black mamas rolled up with their kids in the morning in their million Rand plus Mercs and BMW s - but these parents paid not a cent for the education of their kids - why? They are classed as "previously disadvantaged".  

Prangs (and I mean those that wipe out 20 or more at a time) are frequent. If you bribe the official in question all sorts are possible - like a passport, an ID card, a driving licence (not just for a car but even a 30 ton semi), a road worthy certificate for your totally stuffed car with no brakes, a university degree - the list go on.

Police are corrupt from the top down. It is said that the army is 70% infected with AIDS. Of the frigates and submariness that costs billions hardly one is operable. Fighter planes are flown full tilt into the side of a mountain by under trained (untrainable?) pilots. Our head of state sets the example, so who is surprised? I guess I should not complain - I and many others knew what would happen when we yielded to Black rule. Some liberals of course bought the idea that we would all live in paradise with no racial friction -what a joke - anti-White sentiment is promoted ceaselessly by politicians and bureaucrats. In business (if you are White and have Black employees) then you are constantly harassed by upstart and arrogant bureaucrats. For example if one of your employees has a headache and asks for an aspirin you are likely to be charged by the CCMA (Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration) for improper issuing of drugs.

Otherwise it's still old Sunny South Africa (its raining at the moment) - but then we need the rain for our new garden! (Jacob Zuma hasn't taxed the rain - not yet anyway). He has a wonderful new "residential complex" - cost us tax payers around a quarter billion.

Yours etc.,

I. Long, Durban, Natal