Poor planning begets disaster

THE front page lead story in our NewsDay edition yesterday made very interesting and revealing reading.

In the story titled Drought caught us off-guard, govt admits, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister, Mthuli Ncube is quoted admitting that government did not adequately prepare for the El Niño-induced drought which is currently devastating the southern African region, although acknowledging that it heard something about it.

Ncube said government “didn’t know how deep the drought was” and so it was pleasantly “surprised” that the drought was “much deeper” than it thought.

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