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Article: We are the restless majority; Why is so little being spent at grassroots level where most of our people live and suffer? asks S'bu Zikode.(News)
- Article from:
- The Mercury (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 4, 2006
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Many policies have been passed. Many people have voted. But what has been done has been done for the rich. I am afraid the government, other organisations and academics speak about the poor all the time but so few want to speak to the poor.
It becomes clear that our job is just to vote and then watch the rich speak about us as we get poorer.
We have seen that when the plantations of the rich are on fire there are often helicopters with tons of water to extinguish the fires. But when our shacks are on fire helicopters and ambulances are nowhere to be found.
When Mhlengi Khumalo, a one-year-old boy, died in a fire in Kennedy Road, Clare Estate, ...