Between hope and despair
The impact of electioneering on our widening trust deficit. Within hours of the new incoming SARS commissioner, Edward Kieswetter introducing himself as a “people’s person”, his organisation announced that there would be no reprieve for late submission by the many taxpayers affected by the service’s striking workers. While Kieswetter takes over only on May 1, the contradiction could not have escaped those beleaguered tax-payers frustrated again by poor service delivery. The s