2019 ELECTIONS: THE VOTERS: Township youth say no major party may have what it takes to secure their future By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
Esethu Plaatjie, 26, and Sindisa Monakali, 23, are both registered to vote on 8 May 2019. But both say they do not yet know which party will win their support. They will decide on the morning of the elections.It’s difficult to know which political party to vote for,” says Plaatjie. “To almost all the key questions, they don’t have an answer.”
The lack of social housing close to the centre of Cape Town tops his list, together with the unreliable and inadequate train service. Monakali claims that the provincial education department prioritises former Model C schools, and that unequal resource allocation is also evident in provincial policing, with the most experienced cops and technology like CCTV cameras reserved for affluent suburbs like Hout Bay.Even in leadership, the DA remains white-dominated,” Monakali finishes.
The EFF, suggests Plaatjie, “shift from race to land to the economy. They are radical and vocal, but the membership at branch level don’t have a clue what the EFF is about.”They have no buy-in from the coloured community!” says Monakali. “Don’t talk about land, talk about water and sanitation. Don’t send someone to the Cape Flats who can’t speak Afrikaans!”
Later this afternoon, Plaatjie is due to run a workshop for Khayelitsha “Equalisers” – high school students being trained in activist techniques by Equal Education. At the moment, their campaign focuses on making schools safer. At least 100 high school students from different Khayelitsha schools have gathered for the Equal Education workshop, and the organisers have come prepared with multiple loaves of bread and bottles of Jive cooldrink.
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