South Africans who emigrated to New Zealand several years ago told me they expected to be leaving corruption
behind. To their dismay they found it just as alive and well--but then it was hidden.
Not any more.
As a steady stream of news reports show, it is now in our faces.
It used to be like the fault-lines under Christchurch: unseen, even unknown. Now it is liquefying ground and wrecking lives all over the place.
To the dismay of many New Zealanders there is a word now heard constantly on the streets: CORRUPTION. We are sick of corrupt ends by corrupt means. They must be exposed, railed against and fought—all that corrupts NZ must end. Rotten systems must be replaced by ones that to the best of our devising are rot-proof. We have ways of preventing our houses from rotting. We should do the same for our house of State. Honesty really is the best policy.
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