Overburdening taxpayer is daylight robbery

LET ME get this straight: after years of corruption, cadre deployment, looting frenzies disguised as tenders, a bloated public service that couldn't organise a sandwich, and a state that treats taxpayers like a bottomless ATM, we're now supposed to accept, quietly, that “South Africans were always going to pay”?

- DUGAN BROWN

Really?

In Tara Roos’s recent OP-ED, South Africans were always going to pay, we're treated to the intellectual equivalent of telling a mugging victim they should have expected it because they walked down the street. The title alone reads less like sober analysis and more like a surrender note from a country too bruised to stand up to its own government.

Well, I refuse.