South Africa’s election must be a turning point

ne should look at the government’s achievements with a non-jaundiced eye. In 2002, 30% of households reported they had experienced hunger. Now it is down to 12%. In 2002 one in eight had no proper toilet. Now all but 5% have a flushing one. Almost two-thirds of homes have their rubbish collected regularly. Over 90% have access to running water. Around four-fifths have a television, an electric stove and access to a mobile phone. More than half live in their own home and only 14% in state-subsidised housing. School enrolment is now almost 95%, although the teaching is often of poor quality. The number of black engineering students at university is now the same as whites. The government has set up the world’s biggest anti-retroviral treatment program for HIV/AIDS.

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