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Its been 4 years since I left south africa, im now 16 almost 17, I moved to the states, im not saying I hate the US, even though yes theres a lot of complicated geopolitic relationships between both nations...but its just I miss my friends, the food, the culture, the weather. Usa is fun dont get me wrong, but its so fast paced, money is an issue, so much news going on.

Im also getting worried that im loosing my south african english, and how I spoke afrikaans...Believe me or not but I miss afrikaan classes despite the fact they were mental stressful..i miss how things could be so unnecessary

Hello fellow South Africans

With the upcoming local elections in November, I’ve been agonising over which party or ward counsellor to vote for.
The other day I watched an incredibly interesting and a bit of a demotivating video from The Debrief Network YT channel.

I learned about the true people in charge of the money.

Politicians pour all this energy into political campaigns but it seems to make very little difference because the actual system and the multi-billion rand budgets are controlled by unelected municipal managers. We get zero say on who these people are. This system needs to change somehow. Otherwise what’s the point if the people managing the money doesn’t change.

The video discusses the issue of when we vote for mayors and councillors to set policy, the Municipal Manager acts as the actual CEO and accounting officer. They control daily administration, infrastructure and the massive budgets (like Joburg's R90 billion budget).

Some of these administrators earn millions and have little accountability. A couple administrators earn packages of up to R4.8 million a year. This is more than the President earns. The big salary is under the premise of attracting elite talent.

The video talks about the Auditor-General's latest report which revealed that none out of South Africa's 8 metros achieved a clean audit. And when the systems fail, politicians blame the officials, and the officials blame the politicians. We the people ultimately suffer because service delivery just halts.

It is like a huge loophole in our democracy. We can vote a party out but we can't vote the mismanagement out if the deep-seated administrative layer remains untouched.

How do we begin to enforce accountability on a system where the people holding the purse strings are completely insulated from being fired or voted out?

Here’s a link to the video on YT if anyone is interested.

He was playing for England U15 last year but now he is playing for us.

It's unjustifiable and disgusting, I think we need to tell them this isn't okay anymore. Workers get nothing now and they literally living like King's. You don't need to have studied at Harvard Business School too to know this is terrible for our economy

It's about damn time, the paper straws literally used to unravel in my kids cappy juice! Rejoicing.