By Nobuhle L. Ngema
“Sex is a choice,” mentions Pinky Mhlambi from Evaton, feeling as if the government thinks he’s doing them a favour with grant money.
“The money is not even enough,” she adds. “President Cyril Ramaphosa is just doing it to make himself look good.”
Pinky is a mother to two beautiful boys, frustrated by the changing of Sassa cards, which she doesn’t understand why they have to change in the first place. She said the president cannot expect to make changes with just limited staff and stores when there are millions of people out there who need and are depending on this money. His strategy, she mentions, is not effective.
What upsets Pinky the most are the long queues. On top of that, she adds, “after having endured the never ending queue, you’ll find the system either offline, dysfunctional network, or rude people to assist all that after waking up early in the morning, and sometimes only to be told to be back at a certain time.”
This shows being inconsiderate for the unemployed. If Pinky were to be given a chance to change anything, it would be poor service delivery which she feels is currently lacking and being just a little kind to the people she’s serving.
“Our leaders are failing us. There are serious matters that need their attention, but all they could see is a necessity in the charging of Sassa grant cards, and for what?” Well, I guess half a loaf is better than nothing, Pinky says, but honestly, I foresee a lot of negligence and ignorance. “This money only covers the child’s toiletries,” she says. “This is evidence that our so-called leaders only attend to what they want to attend to.”
Pinky wants the government and his proxies to create more employment opportunities instead of feeding them R570s that does not even amount to much while they are in better positions of providing for their kids without a huddle.
She concludes: “Unemployment is a fundamental issue, and it has nothing to do with the government not having money, but everything to do with selfishness and lack of wisdom. All their criteria and expectations are abnormal, especially with their unreachable services that are just too complicated and naïve.”
