Sent to "The Star,
Johannesburg", Tue 15/06/2010 20:05
Luther Lebelo ("Would Zille use an open loo?", The Star, Mon
June 14) shows what great propaganda one can make if one ignores all the facts.
It is well known that
the City of Cape Town
entered into an agreement with the community (brokered by the ANC Youth
League's local representative, mind you). With the money they had been given, the City
would provide a toilet per family instead of one per five families (the
government standard), if the recipients enclosed the loos.
97% of the community
kept the agreement. 3% tried to get an
advantage by breaking their word.
The local ANCYL saw a
chance to get some cheap publicity at the expense of whatever integrity they
still had.
It is very fair that
the 3% of liars and chancers now have to share a loo with five other families.
This has nothing to
do with the dignity or otherwise of black people.
It is about not
rewarding those who wreck society for their own ends.
