You’d think that when the ANC came into power it would tend to favour it’s political heartland for strategic reasons and as reward for the prominent role the people of the Eastern Cape played in the liberation struggle.With reports of scores of children dying unnecessarily and the education system in shambles, I went to the Eastern Cape to see first hand how the ANC are keeping their promises.
I’ve been thinking about promises the past while…
I was on my way to fetch a friend at a small Xhosa village and the directions were somewhat whimsical. “Go towards the school and on the way you might cross a bridge. If you do cross a bridge, there will be a turn-off just after the bridge – or before the bridge, I’m not sure. I don’t know if it is to the left or to the right, but that is the turn-off you must take … if you have found the right bridge.”