I hope this letter finds you well, I also hope you are as excited as I am about this coming week. Let me get straight to the point why I’m writing to you. I just want to figure out how you are going to choose which party to vote for?
I refer to the nationwide rallies and door to door campaigns were the politicians had an opportunity to sell their dreams and vision to us. But did they answer your questions in their sales pitch (I decided to call this rallying a sales pitch for simplicity)? Well I heard them promise jobs, roads, water, houses, and increased SASSA grant and better schools and more clinics but did you feel included?
I have a few concerns of my own, I hope we share some of the concerns and if I happen to leave yours out, tweet it or Facebook it but just make sure I get it. No single politician said anything about ending outsourcing of worker’s, this is a source of cheap labour which is affecting us. No single politician said anything solid about the varsity fees issues; this means we might find ourselves fighting for zero increment every single year.
We hear the plans to make internet accessible but somehow this plans do not cater for villages. In fact it seems as if they are reserved for Gauteng like the tablet initiative. What about mobile libraries since building one is too much for them? A place as big as Sekhukhune in Limpopo has no more than 2 libraries, is this an indication that rural kids don’t read or their education is not important, or are they second standard citizens?
To the political parties I hear all the promises but no one mentioned opening an agricultural sector. We understand you don’t want to talk about land but just give us a chance to train in that sector. This sector is very special it can’t be mentioned in passing, it is central to life. Help us save the little land we have in our hands to make a change.
Please if you have a concern of your own tweet it with #EarnMyVote let us make our voices heard while they are still listening.
Article By Dimo Wa Moraswi Sekele
