Andrew Julius stood outside the Western Cape legislature hoping that Premier Helen Zille would listen to complaints.
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Retired Elsies River resident Andrew Julius stood outside the Western Cape legislature on Friday hoping that Premier Helen Zille would listen to complaints.
His carried a board reading: “Premier Helen Zille I am fed up, really fed up of all the suffering. Our lives being destroyed and after all these years still victims of full scale corruption, fraud, maladministration, unprofessional services and unfair labour practice;
“Which held us financially hostage in the Western Cape, where freedom, human rights and justice is a joke, totally a joke!!!”
Politicians streamed out the building with not even a glance and tourists briefly stopped and stared at the board before moving on.
Julius said he had been standing in Wale street, in the town centre, every day since former president Nelson Mandela was in power.
“No one takes me seriously and it doesn't surprise me,” he said.
“The Western Cape hears nothing, sees nothing, says nothing and does nothing. They make empty promises and up till now in 2012, they haven't kept any.”
Julius, a father of three and grandfather to many more, had survived on piecemeal jobs in his younger days but said formal employment was hard to come by.
He said his life had been miserable from the moment of his birth in 1949, when the National Party enforced Apartheid.
The rule of the ANC was not much better, he said.
“It is a matter from bad (with the ANC) to worse (with the DA). Lives have been destroyed and we have useless leaders who don't care.”
“All I want is for Helen Zille to come forward and speak to me so I can show her what it's really like.”
Zille opened up the provincial legislature on Friday with her state of the province address.
In her speech, she promised to better the lives of poor people through a number of education, economic and health initiatives. – Sapa
