South Africa Has Become The Wild West

5.15am, her alarm goes off. She gets up early because they have not had power for two weeks so she needs to make a fire to boil water for breakfast and coffee for the family. She drives to work through the Johannesburg suburbs on roads so pot-holed, you would think you were in deepest, darkest Africa.
She passes a train station that no longer has running trains. She stops at a traffic light that has not worked in months. When she finally arrives at the office, she has already paid the corruption tax four times.

By now you should be asking yourself, ‘Where did the money go?’
The money that was supposed to build power stations that work, roads that do not eat tyres, trains that actually run, taps that deliver clean water.

Hundreds of billions of rand, collected from your taxes, your VAT, your fuel levies, your rates. Money that was supposed to build a country. GONE!

This is not a political debate. It is about something far more basic: the gap between the life you are living right now, and the life you would be living if the money meant for infrastructure and services had not been stolen by people who were supposed to serve you.

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