‘The Working for Water Programme has a parallel goal of creating jobs for rural poor and unemployed people and offering opportunities to previously disadvantaged entrepreneurs.’ – well, it is easy to pick poor people from the street and to offer them a job, but are they actally trained?

Last week I the following experience at Standard Bank, South Africa’s leading bank: after having visited several consultants over the past 3 years, I was finally told – this time by an experienced consultant – that I had been using (and had been previously advised) the wrong investment option for my money. Instead of giving me Interest on my money, they had sold me a product that was specifically designed for a religious community in which gaining Interest is not allowed.

These stories are not an exception. You see similar things happening every week when you look around you. The cutting of these trees is a crime, and the people responsible should be held liable and be punished accordingly.