The majority, if not all, countries were caught unprepared by the Covid-19 pandemic. No-one in the world seemed to have put funds aside for rainy days – despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals requiring increased spending on health, especially by poor nations. South Africa is guilty as charged here. Instead of increasing the health budget, spending had been dropping over the years.
The NDP, by all accounts, is hailed as the best blueprint, compared to its predecessors. But the ANC government preferred to let it gather dust or not follow its prescripts. But for a nation where a large number of adults were deprived of education, it would be unjustified to relegate it. Our social security grants system is corrupted – with illegal or fake beneficiaries and theft of funds by some government officials who rob the system. Not to mention foreign beneficiaries who are touted and bribe their way into the grant system.
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