The Right To Social Security

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How many of us recieve the short end of the stick? By that i mean how many people in South Africa experience the bad effects of the way our country has been run?

We have The Right To Social Security, on paper this means
"We all have the right to
affordable housing, medicine,
education, and child care, enough
money to live on and medical help
if we are ill or old." But it never happends that way, sadly enough this includes the majority of our society.

Houses are becoming more expensive by the day and these are not just in suburban residential areas, its affecting all corners of the country, including rural areas. So at the end of the day everyone is feeling the pinch in their pocket.One would say its the hike in prices, for the past few years, has been nothing short of absurdity.

Health care is suppose to be one of the most important rights that gets exercised in our country. However, it certainly feels like its turned into a luxury in order to afford proper health care. The Department of Health's priority is to improve the health status of the
entire population and to realise its vision of a long and healthy life for all South Africans.
As a country, we are still far from hanging our health care vision on the achievement wall. We still fighting the decrease in our life expectancy, the increase in maternal and child mortality, HIV/AIDS and TB. Whats crucial in all this is strenghtening the health systen effectiveness.

Education has been a sensitive topic on South African soil for the past year and a half now, but has always been an issue. So much so that university students have been starting funding campaigns to pay off some of their fees.
Since the #FeesMustFall protest, the matter of education has been one handled with extreme caution because thats where the future of our county lies and students, if not everyone else, have had enough from poor service delivery and are fed up with the structure of our system. We cant afford to grow old with nothing to sit back on.
We just cannot.

Elections are around the corner, promises from political parties will be flooding from every direction. At the end of the day, its you and your ballot paper, so who you vote for is up to you.

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