It is so ironic that the President of South Africa, Ministers, Premiers and MEC’s use private hospitals and visit health practitioners overseas instead of going to the public hospitals they run. The government has pumped millions into public hospitals and schools across the country, but they don’t have faith in the same administration they running.
All politicians show a lack of confidence in the hospitals and schools they run and see it as second rate; hence they use private doctors and take their children to private schools. This is disgraceful because politicians are not delivering to the people who voted them in and instead they have moved themselves from the people by becoming so elite that they allow their children to throw parties worth hundreds of thousands of rands while some children do not have shoes to go to school.
The only way for politicians to ensure that the quality of service at public institutions improves is for the people to compel them to use public hospitals and for their children to attend public schools. In order to put people first as stated in the government Batho Pele principles, government officials need to put their money where their mouth is and take up the challenge of using public institutions.
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