It shouldn't take the deaths of children to spur authorities into action, but this is South Africa and nothing happens before there's a tragedy, writes Richard Chemaly.
opened with the lines, “Teen drinking is very bad. Yo I got a fake ID though.”
Y’know the boring stuff that residents tend to pay rates to municipalities to do? The things that municipalities seemingly can’t afford to do after they’ve cleared the most important line item in their budgets: their own salaries.I’d love to spend pen and ink unveiling the drinking culture that’s developed throughout our schools. I was guilty of it too as a youth. I’m pretty sure we all were to some extent.
Equally, we cannot pretend like this tavern violating laws is a once off situation. Sure, I don’t want kids to die in preventable situations, but it’s a bit late to start the investigation into this tavern now. This sounds reasonable until you realise that the macro effect is going to be more tragedy as safety standards drop due to this realisation.
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