You are in breach of contract Our government has an 11th hour attitude. They play the waiting game or, and it is a scary thought, they think they are untouchable and ''things will work out''.Things do not.
We need to predict, plan and respond, in time, to avert disaster.
Look at the current teachers'' strike. Education, and more importantly, our Grade 10 and 12 examinations are truly in chaos. Government responded so slowly, and waited until the 11th hour to bring the court action, which they lost, and of course, there was no plan for that eventuality.
Schools did not all get the message – exam papers were opened and those exams written. And now, declared null and void.
There is money for a new parliament, there is money for long overseas trips and countless advisors and S&T and increases for ministers and Mercedes Benz vehicles. But there is no money for the teachers, or the schools for that matter.
The same can be said about the water crisis. Does government seriously want us to believe that with the rapid growth in Windhoek, directly as a result of their lack of decentralisation in this country, the meagre dams could supply the capital? And with the pollution due to the sprawling slums… no one thought that one day, the rain would stay away?
At one time, the agriculture minister told the media that we should all ''pray for a miracle''.
Are we praying for miracle now with our school children? Are we praying that La Nina delivers enough water? She will not. Not for the central dams.
Our government does not plan. They did not expect the struggle kids to not go away. They did not expect the dams to dry up. They did not expect the teachers to strike.
Our government must learn to expect things. It is their job to make sure that there are contingency plans in place. This is why we pay them not? Is there not a contract between us? We pay the taxes you demand and you deliver the services we need?
Government is in breach of that contract.