We’re into the second week of schools’ opening and what yours truly has observed is a committed community that is destined to achieving the highest accolades when the year ends.
I’ve had the privilege of visiting a few schools and my staff members have been in and around many other schools, and what has been reported thus far, is promising to be a better year than 2014.
We’ve been watching politicians spread all over the province, motivating learners and teachers to commit themselves to education for a better livelihood. In the process, there have also been donations of school uniforms for the needy and other amenities that are needed by the schools and communities.
I’d like to condemn with the contempt it deserves, the criminal act of whoever opened the door of Miss Mpumalanga, Natasha dos Santos’ home in Tekwane South on the very evening that the home was delivered to her mother, fully furnished. They opened, didn’t break into it, because nothing was broken, but a stove and fridge with all the food inside, were taken.
I must vouch for her that she wasn’t a privileged recipient of the house because we, as a newspaper, made an appeal for good Samaritans to come to her family’s rescue as we personally went there to the mountainous area in Lekazi where she lived with her mother and two siblings.
It was a pathetic situation even for the sponsors of her pageant, to drive up to her home to deliver her prizes, let alone her being able to park the car she had won. She is not the only disadvantaged person, no, but as has been said, she was being inspired to have much more strength as she went about motivating people around the province, as part of her duties, knowing that she had a home to come back to.
On another level, yours truly would like to appeal to the ruling party to desist from its tendencies of seemingly interfering in the functioning of government in a very careless manner, in order to benefit its own comrades in the process.
Look at what happened at Mbombela Local Municipality as the Hawks arrested and charged the municipal manager with fraud and maladministration. Who is to blame, the official or the party? The legal process will eventually reveal the truth.
They need to guide and not to foster unworkable systems within government departments.
