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South Africa's poor health service


 


 A group of Patients waiting to see Doctor in Etwatwa Clinic                         

 

South Africa is amongst the many countries in Africa that has poor health care services.Despite the fact that employed  South Africans pay their tax it is not enough because the majority of South African are unemployed.This simply means that the funds that comes the taxes will not be enough to cover the entire country's health care services.The cause of poor health care is not having enough Doctor and nurses in our country.This means that other professionals from foreign countries are employed.Therefore this means that our country's economy to decrease.

The right to health care was written  into the constitution because President Nelson Mandela saw the need to improve the poor health service more especially in rural areas. Most of the people who are in rural  areas  are the ones that experience poor service and it is getting worse. They have to wait in long line at the clinic in order to be helped. This is because they can not afford to go to Private hospitals and you find that most of them have travel long distances to get to the clinic because in many rural areas there is only one clinic per region.Read more...

Our government should invest in building medical school in all nine provinces of South Africa and also offer the bursaries. This will means that all nine provinces will have invested inverted in all those that were offered the bursaries and once they complete they will be required to work in their province in order to try and solve this issue of employing foreign professionals and we will have more South African professional Doctors,nurses etc. This will also encourage the pupils that are still in schools  to have more interest in the medical field because some do not consider cause it is expensive to study medicine and also the fact that have to relocate to other provinces.Read more...

If our government could invest more in training our youth and fund them we could find our country having more professionals which will open other doors for them to work in other foreign countries.This will also mean that fewer complains about negligence from patients will be made because there will be enough workers and they will have enough time to rest cause most of them are over worked and do not get enough time to rest.

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Few South Africans in work




This graph shows the unemployment rate in South Africa from the 2000 up until 2006   

 

The unemployment rate of black South Africans alone has increase from 13% in the 1990s to 25% in the late 2000. South Africa is consider one of the highest countries with unemployment rate. In a situation like this, where do we start in solving such a problem? Yes we have many people with tertiary qualifications but is this enough?More and more young people graduate from universities but it is very difficult for them to find jobs because experience is always required.

The problem lies within our Education system. They should make sure that programmes like NYDA and Setas are available through out the country to help develop their skills. These programmes should assist every South African to ensure that they get a job. By doing this it will help them to have more experience and also help them in developing their skills in various sectors.

We can sit and and complain but one has  to take charge of their lives. Education can be where we start and government should also create more skill developing programmes like NYDA and Sites. This will encourage more young people to get educated or to go to schools because they will be reassured that once they complete school a job will be waiting for them.It is really discouraging to go tertiary and not get a job once you are done. If we can achieve this goal as a country, one can imagine where we would be in 2030.May be than South Africa will be amongst the richest countries in the world. Read more...

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 South Africa a play ground for crime

  Jackie Selebi found guilty of corruption

South Africa has the highest prison population in Africa and the 3rd highest in the world. This simply shows that most South Africans are involve in criminal activities. How does this reflect on our image to our fellow Africans and to the rest of the world. What does this say about our moral and values?
Crimes that are increasing South Africa 

• Fraud
•  Rape and sexual assaults
• Drug trafficking
• Domestic violence
• Hate crime and murder

Most of the crimes in our country are not solved by the police due to corruption that is within the SAPS and the lack of passion for their work. They are there to serve our country and protect it but instead they are destroying and they are also giving criminals from other countries to walk all over us.

Mr and Mrs Dewani

On your right hand side you see a young couple that seems to be very happy but this man organized two South African men to kidnap and kill his wife on their honeymoon in Cape Town.These are the results we are getting as a nation because we do not think about our future when we see or when we offered a chance to make  quick and easy way to make money. Read more...

 Minister S'bu Ndebele says that 40% of those who are behind bars are between the ages of 18 and 25 year of age.This says a lot about the youth of our country and the lack of role models or leadership. If they had good role model who worked hard in achieving their success they would probably follow their foot steps. They would see that there are no short cut in life. More and more young people are drawn into a life of crime for the easy buck and they forget about the outcomes.Read more...

The youth is not putting much energy into their Education but putting it in wrong things. They should view Education as an investment that no one can ever take away from them.They should also  persevere in all the situation that they are in whether it is poverty or being surrounded by crime . All good things come to those who wait and they should remember that education is only key to success and to escape poverty.

    

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Minister of Education Angie Motshekga

The Education Crisis in Rural Areas



Education is viewed as the most important tool to over come poverty but for those who come from rural areas is not the case for them because these pupils will not get the same education compared to those pupils who are in the cities.

We are all aware that schools in rural areas do not pay school fees and the pupil are offered food by the government but is that enough? They should not be neglected but should be given equal chances like those in civilized areas. This proves to us that even though we have over come the apartheid era but we still remain a divided nation. In order for one to get educated they  may need proper resources like textbooks and skillful teachers. That is not the case is South Africa because the government will talk and talk but at the end of the day they fail to deliver.

The Limpopo province story is a good example of how neglectful our government is. The minister of education Angie Motshekga has been in the spotlight these past months for all the wrong thing. Her ethics and moral towards education are being questioned by everyone in the country.

The minister was informed about the problems that the department may encounter but she ignored it until it was too late. The pupils are the ones that are still paying for her careless behavior because 22% of the schools in Limpopo province are still waiting for their textbooks. How can we expect a good pass rate at this point in time. They are in the 3rd term of the year and still have not received the textbooks. Read more...

Some of the books that were dumped 

Even though all these problems come from the poor management of the finance department, she should have picked up on the problems that they may encounter in the near future. The minister could have reported the problem to the President and they might have avoided all the bad publicity they are receiving. She needs to acknowledge her mistakes and take responsibility of her action and stop shifting the blame. The minister should face the media and inform them about how her department plans on fixing this whole chaos instead of avoiding them.

 

This is not the only problem rural areas face! Here are some other problems they encounter:

• Lack of clean water
• No electricity
• No libraries 
• Skillful teachers
• No computers
• Poor sanitation 
• Not enough classroom
•  No laboratories