READER LETTER | SA cannot survive on grants

Let South Africans not be fooled: where is evidence for the theory that a country can survive on grants? A country’s survival depends on the growth of its economy. The praise for grants from the president over the weekend is poor electioneering.

Voters in SA are just like pawns in a chess game. Their poverty is exploited for political gains via the ballot box. If well-meaning opposition parties don’t fight this virus that is eating the nation away, we’re set to end up a replica of Cuba.

In this poor Marxist state, the population survives on coupons. That’s where we’re being pushed to by those who desire a one-party state for SA. Is that what we fought for, including in 1976 when students died fighting for human rights?

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Are we ever going to get a government to honour all these efforts for freedom? How can you introduce a universal income grant in an economy that is not growing? — Themba Brown, Soweto

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