From Roy Glover, Tzaneen
Of course education should be free for all! If the government took effective steps to stamp out corruption and reduce the number of inefficient officials there would be more than sufficient money available.
I suggest our religious leaders start by encouraging all involved to read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. It was written many years ago, but so was the Bible.
The following quote by Adam Smith is as valid today as ever: “No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides that those who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of people should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.”
Our beautiful country has the potential to comfortably feed, clothe and house all, and our political leaders should be encouraged to do what they were elected to do: to serve, and not to be served.
The Catholic bishops’ conference has huge power to do good and bring about change. Let’s hope they use that power well in doing what they were appointed to do.
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