OPINION| South Africans, don’t agonise, take action - If we want a better country then we need to stop spouting slogans, organise and work together
South Africa has no shortage of people who can articulate its problems. From educated scholars with PhDs to those fighting daily to survive, people across the length and breadth of the country can point to the problems and speak with conviction about their various causes.
On 8 October, the Rivonia Circle convened more than 160 activists to a workshop called South Africa 2.0: Mobilising People’s Electoral Power. The keynote speaker was Nsé Ufot, a long-time voter rights activist and chief executive of an NGO called theUfot has worked for 11 years organising young, black, Hispanic and other historically marginalised voters in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, to reclaim the power of their vote.
The way to bring an end to this is by organising to vote for change before an election and organising for accountability after an election. On the road to the 2024 elections, South Africa can test the power of organising for what we want. Politicians and political parties are organising for what they want. If power is to be returned to the people, people outside of formal party politics must organise.
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