🔒 If voters and politicians spent just a fraction of the energy wasted on political drama on their actual work, we'd have the best democracy in the world 🥸
The political game in South Africa, with all the alliances, coalitions and internal party politics is extremely complex. Throw in an increase of middle management incompetence and there should be no surprise at how the functional systems of yesteryear, racism aside, just feel like there’s no recovery on the books. If you were to ask me when I was in high school whether I thought I’d ever be writing for a national publication, there would have been no doubt.
If you had asked me, however, whether I would be writing in the dark on the power offered by my inverter, drinking bottled water, while waiting on quotes to replace my burst tyre, I’d tell you that’s hardly a dream come true.In the 1990s, we had so much hope for the future but today, we’re fighting over whether the way to go is pushing for equality, equity, or equal opportunity with significant numbers of people unable to spell the words, let alone know the differences.
If you’re all about the ruling party, unless you know the right people, you’re not getting much bang for your buck. If you’re all about an opposition party, they’re going to be getting into bed with somebody you didn’t vote for and the compromises will begin.What’s most intriguing is that we kind of just accept it and think, ‘okay cool, as long as I get my say every five years, I’m happy’.
We’ve all fallen for it. We’re all complicit. We’re all way more invested in who’s to blame rather than how we can fix things.. Tell me your favoured plan to fix Eskom, strengthen the Rand, end water scarcity, ensure teachers actually show up to class…Fine. It’s not like we should expect every voting citizen to know every possible policy of every party, although that would be ideal.
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