With the general elections on Wednesday May 8 just days away, YOLANDE DU PREEZ visited Fish Hoek’s Nerina Gardens retirement home to hear what changes the elderly would like to see after the dust has settled at the polling stations.
Nicolaas Pretorius, 87, wants a future where politicians consider the elderly and their needs. He says he is not one for politics but wants to see politicians lie less in the future. “They are always promising something and what they say and what they do are very different.”
Alma Inskip, 90, who’s a former newspaper librarian, is worried about education in rural areas. She believes a good education offers building blocks for the future, but many children don’t attend decent schools and there are too many students who drop out of university because they can’t cope with the pressure.
Maureen McConnachie, 88, wants to see a government free of fraud and corruption. She wants parliamentarians’salaries cut. Public service such as railway and postal services, she says, should be improved and import tax hiked so local industry can create more jobs.
John Andrews, 81, says he is not really interested in politics, but he knows politicians make a lot of empty promises. He says government must must acknowledge farm murders. He says he wants to see a government free of corruption and nepotism and one where the police service is beefed up and criminals brought to book.
Mr Andrews says he is not really interested in politics but he knows politicians make a lot of empty promises. He says government must acknowledge farm murders. He says he wants to see a government free of corruption and nepotism and one where the police service is beefed up and criminals brought to book.
