Hunger eating away at the city As many as 42% of the people of Johannesburg are either hungry or at risk of going hungry. In the richest city in Africa, nearly half of all residents are food-insecure, frequently going without at least one meal on between three and 10 days a month This is South Africa says: Johannesburg city centre was once a thriving metropolis where multinational companies, banks, insurance companies and retailers invested their businesses and the city prospered like no other in Africa. The writing was on the wall after 1989 and all those businesses relocated to the northern suburbs, landlords couldnt find alternative tenants and Africanism flooded into what was once the golden city of the African continent Today Johannesburg city is nothing more than an oversized slum, abandoned buildings with broken windows illegally occupied by squatters, street vendors, litter piled up on the streets, noisy taverns and the stench of urine and faeces are the order of the day. How the mighty Johannesburg has fallen. Most areas are occupied by foreigners as in Nigerians, Ghanans, Mozambicans, Zimbabweans and Somalis. The South African born blacks are a minority in most areas of this once great metropolis Almost all the supermarkets, cafés and spaza shops are owned by Bangladeshi and Somali nationals, their shops fitted with steel bars around the counter areas as dealing with cash in Joburg can cost you your life. Lets not mention the prostitution, drug dealing, chop shops and other illegal activities that now thrive in this once proud area. This is typical African progress that we see whenever colonials or white governments had the reigns of leadership to black leaders. The former [white] rulers spent decades building world class, Westernised cities, only for all their hard work to be undone in a few short years by a majority that prefers squalid living conditions and street vendors to paying rent for middle class, clean, watered and powered apartments and shopping in supermarkets. As our economy tightens, jobs become scarce, however South Africas porous borders combined incompetent and corrupt Home Affairs officials allows hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to enter the country every year. The first place many head to is Johannesburg, because they still believe its the city of gold in the land of opportunity. They settle down in the African tradition living within cramped conditions, cooking with [often lethal] Primus [paraffin] stoves, washing clothes in plastic buckets on the streets whilst hoping to fulfil their dreams of finding paying and meaningful employment. This often never happens. Now the media reports that almost half of the people living in this metropolitan slum land are hungry Does this come as any surprise? Not at all. Like most South Africans, our foreign fortune seekers are fast discovering the truth about the mythical rainbow nation as surviving becomes a daily task for the foreign and S.A. nationals who reside in the once great Johannesburg city centre... Another good story brought to us by the incompetence of the ruling ANC
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:29:25 +0000