We have men who have been in parliament for donkey years, and the question to ask is what value can these men of the past really add to the current government? These men have lorded over regimes that resisted declaration of assets, citizen economic empowerment, and freedom of information laws. They have been central to regimes that oversaw poor allocation of land to our people, dispossession of ploughing fields, failure to generate employment opportunities for our young, failure to diversify the economy, limited access to tertiary education, poor service delivery and failure to allow mother-tongue instruction for our young. For some strange reason these men are treated as angels and knights of democracy.
A road is normally designed for 25 years, a village water reticulation scheme for 10 years and a building for 50 years. We are unable to maintain our infrastructure because of our developmental horizon that is not tied to any aspect of our infrastructure design criteria.We have allowed economists and administrators to determine our developmental model.
