What is needed more than hope at the moment is the refusal to accept the erosion of essential services, key infrastructure, or the erosion of ethical standards as normal, writes Deon Rossouw.
The resilience of South Africans to find ways of coping with the erosion of essential services and key infrastructure can be applauded, but there is also a dark side to it, writes the author.What is needed more than hope at the moment is the refusal to accept the erosion of essential services, key infrastructure, or the erosion of ethical standards as normal, writesWe have become, to an alarming extent, used to social and ethical erosion in South Africa.
More recently, we also started experiencing disruptions in water supply in both rural and urban centres in the country. There seems to be a looming problem with a clean water supply that might expand to other parts of the country. Once more, citizens and organisations had to pay out of their own pocket for water storage facilities to bridge periods of no or limited water supply. In some cases, local communities stepped in to repair municipal water infrastructure at their own cost.
What is needed more than hope at the moment is the refusal to accept the erosion of essential services, key infrastructure, or the erosion of ethical standards as normal. Should we do so, we would fuel a downward spiral to the bottom. It can be done. We should be like the humble indigenous plant, the Spekboom , which is not only one of the most prolific producers of oxygen but also an excellent stabiliser of ground erosion.
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