Government should try to make life easier, but its zombie lockdown is making life harder IRR – South Coast Herald

The 172 percent hike in the taxi fare for a trip from Alexandra to Sandton, from R11 to R30, illustrates the effects of the governments unjustifiable insistence on maintaining zombie elements of its destructive and wasted lockdown, forcing the poorest South Africans into even further hardship, according to the Institute of Race Relations (IRR),

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IRR Deputy Head of Policy Research, Hermann Pretorius said that instead of looking for solutions and policies to make the lives of South Africans easier and freer, the government has consistently betrayed its anti-freedom, anti-prosperity, anti-opportunity attitude by placing even more obstacles in the way of people who want to make an honest living.

These obstacles, amply illustrated in the destructive and wasted lockdown and its being allowed to limp on, zombie-like, cruelly add to the difficulties people already under terrible socio-economic strain. South Africans need more freedom and more opportunity to escape the cycles and traps of poverty, Hermann Pretorius

The ANC government talks glibly of helping the poorest and creating jobs, yet time and time again fails to walk the walk in fact, forcing the poorest and most vulnerable South Africans to do the walking. The consequences of unjustifiable and destructive government intervention in the economy are tragically evident in this taxi fare increase many will be unable to afford.

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