Election promises are wishful thinking

WHILE the recent death of a child due to electrocution in Mfuleni is tragic and my heartfelt sympathy goes out to the family, I do have to ask what a 2-year-old child was doing wandering alone in the streets.

I find it disingenuous that Brett Heron, of the Good Party, has tried to use this to his political advantage. Either he is not very bright or he has no idea what goes on with the illegal connections and constant cable theft. Or he is just being a typical politician at election time.

It must be an almost impossible job for any municipality to keep on top of cable theft and illegal connections. A change of political party controlling the municipality is not going to change this.

While I also find it unacceptable that sewage is running down the streets in some areas, this is also an almost insurmountable problem because of what is dumped down the drains and sewers.

In the more formal suburbs, the municipality does not have to rush around attending to this sort of thing, as alleged by Herron, because there are no illegal connections and rubbish is not dumped down the drains and sewers.

Your paper should list all the promises that have been made by the various political parties, most of which are unattainable. If they manage to take control of a ward, then go back to them in six months and find out how many of the election promises have been kept, and then publish this in banner headlines, for better or worse.

Voting for the Good party will not change any of this and it will not be getting my vote.

DAVID WANTLING | Mowbray