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Poor service delivery in South Africa 




Khayelitsha the Largest township in Cape Town but it is still made up of shacks not even RDP Houses 

It is has been 18 years since South Africa received it's democracy but South Africans are still complaining about poor service delivery.People are still complaining about houses,education,sanitation and also about the health services but i will be focusing on poor housing.

 Many people are promised houses during election times by the different parties but they end up being disappointed because they never get what they were promised.They cause many people to lose hope and they end up not voting because most of them would say that they do not see the point of voting cause they do not see the change that they were promised.The ANC has made a lot of promises which can be seen as unrealistic because most of these promises are not realistic, not measurable,are not time bound and most of all are not achievable. Expectation is created but without commitment and a long term plan all these expectations will fail.Read more...

It is sad that most people in our country still live in these conditions but they are promised better housing all the time.The government provides RDP houses but are they safe enough for people to live in?Some people have to wait for years before they receive their houses and some of them never get the houses due to corruption.Meaning that the officials will sell their house to other desperate people or even to foreign people.  



RDP house that is poorly build for the poor people

 

Causes of poor service delivery

• Corruption
• Lack of good leadership
• Lack of skill in effective planning
• Unwilling to admit the need for help from other parties
• Lack of commitment from our leaders

The media has also reported about poor housing in rural areas or townships like Alex and Diepsloot.The living conditions in these areas are really bad and many people lose their life's because of one persons mistake.If one shack burns by mistake all the shacks might burn because they close to each other.In rainy seasons water get inside some of the shack or RDP house.The media has also reported about the protest in Khayelitsha about service delivery.Read more...

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South Africa's poor leadership cause chaos

 



Julius Malema at the Marikana mine

South Africa's lack good leadership is causing more trouble than we all imagined.Our leaders are fighting amongst one another instead of finding solutions to the problems that our country  faces every day.They should be working together in bettering our country and try to meet all the demands of made by the people.They should not only interact with the people only if they need their votes but that's the case in South Africa.Here candidates will promise the people every little thing in order to get vote but at the end no results will be delivered.They should strive to better the country's situation and also work together and support each other and mostly support the decision made by the ruling party to show unity. 

The violence of the past weeks at Marikana is proof that South Africa needs good leadership which will help in developing our country.This is good example of poor leadership because we saw different party fighting against the decision made by the ruling party.Julius Malema encouraging the miners to continue to fight instead of finding other alternatives to try and solve this  problem.He just encouraged them to continue to fight dispate the fact that many people died in that strike.That's why i say that they only come to the people when they need something or if they want to get back at the ruling party.It is never about the people and what is good for them.  Read more...



Striking miners at Marikana mine



South African really need to be careful in choosing their leaders in the future.Leaders that are are good and leaders that knows what the meaning of leadership.Our country needs leaderships in order to have good role models for the youth.Just imagine the youth looking up to Julius Malema and behaving like him.It would be the end of our country even though Julius does rise some good points sometimes but most of the time he is still stack in the apartheid era and everyone is against him.We need to elect good leaders in order to have a country that does not have violence and a country that looks out for the needs of it people not leaders who are only looking to make themselves rich at the expense of their people.



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HIV and AIDS in South Africa

African continent showing that South Africa has the highest HIV rate

HIV and AIDS is a serious issue that all South Africans whether young or old.It has the highest and fastest infection rate of all the viruses i know about.It is said that 5.5 million people are infected with HIV and AIDS in South Africa and that there are 500 000 new infection every year. It is also said that 100 000 are children out the 500 000 and that each year 400 000 people die from this virus.Read more...

I am sure we have heard of HIV and AIDS and its outcomes whether from the Radio,TV or Newspapers, the fact is that we know about HIV and AIDS.So why do we pretend like we not to know what would happen if we have sex with different people without using a condom? Why do we like taking chances with our health?Even though we know what the end results will be,we still act unresponsively and childish. HIV and AIDS affect all of us whether you are infected or not the fact is that someone you might know may be infected or even someone in you family.It time we deal with this issue and stop pretending like its not there or keeping quit about it.Man and women are being killed by this virus and the elderly are left to take care of their infected children.It time all South Africa take charge of their lives and be responsible.We must not act in the moment but we must think for every action we make and their outcomes.HIV and AIDS is here to stay if we do not make responsible decisions now.  

How to avoid getting infection

• Abstain
• Be faithful to one partner
• Use condoms all the time
• If pregnant test early in order to protect your unborn child
• Avoid touching other people's blood
• Circumcised men have less chances of being infected  but this does not mean they should not use condoms

If you would like to know more about HIV and AIDS there are organisation like Love Life.This Organisation target the youth and teach them about HIV and AIDS and other issues that are related to sex. The government should also more in organisation like these and also ensures that everyone get tested whether it out of their own will or not.This will help cause every one will know their status.If we could work together we can bit HIV and AIDS and have an  HIV and AIDS free generation.