OPINION Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya What has changed is that South Africans can now hold those who wield power accountable.
With elections a week away, it is interesting to hear how many of those who say they will not vote, say it is because voting changes nothing and that, regardless of how many times they have voted, “nothing has changed”.
So whatever you wish to say about South Africa and how much it has disappointed you, please resist the temptation to say nothing has changed.Corruption, state capture, crime, bad education and a weak economy are there for everyone to see. One can even argue that certain things were better during apartheid than they are now, but it will be ahistorical and dishonest to say, as some do, that nothing has changed.
It may seem trite to some, but it matters that our country no longer has to sacrifice its young people, be it in defence of or the fight against apartheid.
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