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Nog stakings
Inwoners van Madibeng word geraak deur die
staking by Firestone wat verlede week begin het. Dit is ‘n nasionale
staking, maar aangesien Firestone een van die groter nywerhede in
Brits is, is dit ook ‘n plaaslike kwessie.
Dit lyk soos die seisoen van stakings. Kormorant het in die verlede
al sy afkeer in hierdie barbaarse vorm van selfgyseling deur werkers
laat blyk en kan nou maar net die hoop uitspreek dat die partye,
sowel die vakbonde as die werkgewers, gesonde verstand sal laat
seëvier en tot ‘n vergelyk sal kom voordat te veel skade aangerig
word - veral aan die plaaslike ekonomie.
Die gemeenskap kan nie bekostig om nog werkgeleenthede te verloor
nie.
Targeting the weak
Poor people do not generally hug the spotlight,
but around the Dam they have been in the news lately - sometimes
because of good things that happen to them, sometimes because of bad
things.
Some positive developments have been the visit by the British rugby
teams who have collected money for computers for primary schools in
Broederstroom. This week a Scottish team from Argyll is donating
money for computers for the Frikkie Smit School and last week it was
an English team from Newcastle-on-Thyme who handed over money they
collected for the Re-E-Lwele school. In the meantime there have been
collections by the Pecanwood foundation and other charitable
institutions in aid of the underprivileged in the area.
But it would seem that there are some who eye the poor with less
than charitable intent. One can but marvel at the greed that must
motivate anyone who breaks in at a school for the underprivileged
such as Re-E-Lwele to scavenge on their meager resources. Was it the
news that the school was about to receive computers that prompted
the break-in? Or was it just a random raid on a particularly soft
target?
Whatever the reason, it is a repulsive act as it was directed
against the poor and the weak - people who can hardly defend
themselves or safeguard their premises. It falls into the same
category as attacks on pensioners and squatters to rob them of what
little they have.
It is a sick society that has to tolerate such elements in its
midst.
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