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The ANC are ramping up their political ‘it’s-all-rainbows-and-butterflies’ shenanigans ahead of the 2024 election.
During his closing address at the party’s four-day national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated – without a twitch, nogal – that more than 90% of people in South Africa have access to electricity.
In the political overview covering the progress that the ANC has made towards service delivery, per The Citizen, he also boldly claimed that 89% of citizens have access to water.
Not sure if Uncle Cyril is utterly delusional or playing games to get the vote, but either way, the dude is wrong. He’s obviously been sitting on his cash-stuffed couch, doing not much, while the people try to tell him that they aren’t being provided for. The frequent service delivery protests springing up across the country speak volumes, and yet…
To say that the ANC has done well to electrify homes in the country is a slap in all their faces:
“Looking at the penetration of electricity, there has been increasing penetration of connectivity and it has lowered quite a bit in two provinces, but in the main, we have more than 90% of our people having access to electricity connectivity.
“If you go through our continent, in a number of developing economic countries, you do not find the connectivity to electricity in the way that we have it here. A number of countries hover around 50% to 60%.
“This ANC-led government has ensured that access to electricity to our people has reached more than 90% of our people. That is a significant achievement,” Ramaphosa said.
The President has been roasted on Twitter for these wild claims:
But do they pay? Apparently Soweto were yr relatives r on gravy train owe Eskom R5bn…AGAIN
— FuelLevy Heist
(@FuellevyHeist) July 10, 2023
Susan Scholtz also pointed out that access to supply is intermittent:
Sir, there is a difference between having access to water and electricity and actually HAVE water and electricity. Now, 100% of the population WONDER when access will just disappear. Please check the people of Giyani and come back.
— Susan Scholtz (@ScholtzSusan) July 10, 2023
Come on, Cyril, comparing gets you nowhere:
“not many countries on the Continent have achieved this.” That’s quite the benchmark Cyril!
— David L.Smith (@okapidavid) July 10, 2023
Easy to look good when you compare yourself to the lowest competitors. It’s like saying we’re not the lowest on the log but second lowest. And then comparing yourself to the lowest on the log. Not the leading competitors.
— Dash (@DashStevens) July 11, 2023
Other pertinent points were made:
Improved water resources? Improved with cholera?
— Steven Nicholas
(@stevennich) July 10, 2023
Does not help if the water is poluted and the electricity is on stage 4. Not many countries have done that.
— Carel Pienaar
2/2 but th grid is incapable of generating sufficient electricity to th 90% also due to economy collapse either people can’t afford electricity or even worse they’re unemployed so they definitely can’t afford electricity and then there is th exhorbitant cost
— Raymond Alexander™ (@rayale26) July 10, 2023
Electricity reaches us yes but he has to switch it on too… and we have to go without water for days. It’s definitely not an improvement. We used to have both all the time.
— Priscilla le Roux (@pris_001) July 10, 2023
You can watch the president’s address here, and read more of the roasting over here. Fun times.
In conclusion, Ramaphosa said he is confident that the ANC will be victorious in the 2024 general election. Please let him be delusional on that one.
[source:citizen]
