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Gepubliseer op 16 November 2015 | Geskryf deur Redaksie | | | Trefslae: 1536
Dit verstom ‘n mens dat intelligente mense polities so beneweld kan wees dat hulle nie bereid is om ander intelligente mense se insig en ontledings van gebeure in ‘n area waarop sulke mense kundig is, wil glo nie, bloot omdat hulle glo dat hulle beter weet al is dit buite hulle vakgebied. Hulle moet eers sien, of liewer, hulle moet eers voel voor hulle glo en glo my, dit neem laaank!
Al sou ‘n mens hulle daarvoor kon oorsien, word dit egter moeilik om te begryp dat dit die meeste van hulle meer as twintig jaar neem om tot nugterheid te kom so asof die newel ‘n sluier oor hulle beterwete getrek het wat hulle so voel-voel soos in ‘n digte mis laat rondtas. Magnus Heystek beskryf die genesing daarvan as ‘n tweeledige proses. Eers geleidelik, en dan skielik.
Die langdurige proses van genesing wat so skielik gekom het, het egter klaarblyklik letsels gelaat. Vir een het dit bv. die opvoeding dermate benadeel dat die mees basiese kenmerk daarvan verlore gegaan het , naamlik erkenning van jou fout en die aanbied van verskoning. Die opvolg met jou tyd, geld en energie om te help herstel van dit waartoe jy meegewerk het om te vernietig wat oor lang jare opgebou was, hetsy deur deelname ditsy deur neutrale onbetrokkenheid, ontbreek kennelik! Dit val maar sommer net in as of hulle nog maar altyd só gedink het. ‘n geval van : “I’ve got principles, but if you don’t like them, I’ve got a few others!”
The #feesmustfall student unrest we witnessed at most of our campuses, Parliament and even at the Union Buildings, are seemingly unrelated symptoms of a much greater build-up of steam boiling under the surface.
These sporadic and isolated incidents include the labour uprising and massacre at Marikana in 2012, the ongoing e-tolls boycott and several hundred incidents of social unrest around water, electricity and the provision of basic services.
The e-toll saga in Gauteng is nothing else but a manifestation of middle-class anger directed at the financial squeeze they find themselves in.
By itself e-tolls are not a substantial cost, but when taken into consideration with above-average increases in land taxes, medical aid fees, school fees, electricity and everything else, it becomes the proverbial last straw on the camel’s back. With e-tolls you have a choice to pay or not pay; that therefore became the weakest fissure and out burst the steam.
Middle-class taxpayers in government have been earning salary increases at a rate of inflation plus 3% for many year now and have been promised increases of the same for the next three years. A cushy job in government is now the surest way to middle-class wealth for most South Africans.