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Like Putting Lipstick on a Pig

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Time to Leave the Low Hanging Fruit alone

I note with pride the efforts by the new COGG government in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality to rebuild our City by fixing potholes, fences, braai areas, picnic spots and the like.

BUT

My sense of pride is tinged with a bit of cynicism. The cynic in me says; “Why are they NOT tackling the ROOT CAUSE of all this neglect?”

Could it all be to do with timing?

Lipsticked Pig
A Lipsticked Pig will remain just a pig

With local elections slated to occur close to November this year any local government does not have time to make lasting permanent change by tackling the things that really need to be solved – fraud, corruption, incompetence, graft, lack of pride, lack of trust, you name it – so they do the cosmetic things only.

Like putting lipstick on a pig the City will remain a pig!

Maybe someone with better brains than I can answer this observation?

“If you really have the well-being of our City at heart then why do you not tackle the ROOT CAUSE problems first? Could it be because you are afraid of losing your jobs?”

DEFINITION: To put “lipstick on a pig” means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings.

Ward 7 Independent Councillor

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Alan Straton

Chief Cook, Bottle Washer and Broom Mechanic at MyPE
Passionate about Port Elizabeth and definitely NOT packing for Perth. Alan's ethos is epitomised in the words of Nelson Mandela; "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." See more articles by Alan.