Voting for the candidate you think has the least chance of doing any real damage isn't the best way to vote, but it's the least shameful.
Residents gather at the Rayton voting station during the 2016 Local Government Elections. Photo: Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius
As a person of catholic tastes and shifting allegiance, I have found reason, over the decades since the advent of freedom, to vote for most major parties on the ballet.The parties I have blessed with my precious vote have been the people in red, blue, yellow, orange, and a few of no fixed colour scheme.
Maybe I lost faith in democracy when the opposition lost faith in transformation because it might cost them the support of the white right wing, like a magazine recommitting to blonde cover models because black covers offend the racists.Perhaps I watched parties, local and national governments become a Venn diagram of criminal networks committed to robbing the homeless of houses, old people of their life savings and the poor of any hope of a better life.
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