South Africans go to the polls in the most important election since the advent of democracy; an epoch-making event that will alter the course of history.
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At the extremes, leaders fall into two broad groups: Teflon politicians and Velcro politicians.
The first group, confronted by a problem or scandal, is able to deflect it without serious damage or accountability.
In contrast, the second group often seems to behave in ways that makes its problems worse and, when it finds itself in a small hole, ends up digging itself in deeper.
Some politicians with amiable incompetence prove themselves invulnerable to scrutiny and interrogation.
While being a Teflon politician relies on political skills, it is not in any simple or obvious way related to intelligence or other skills.
Voters are acutely aware and will not be deceived by propaganda, when they cast their crucial votes.
After August 3, the political landscape of South Africa will enter a new dimension.
It will reflect those crucial years of calculated callousness and distrust of the political elites they have produced.
Our nation is enveloped in a quagmire of immense proportions.
We cannot continue on our current political trajectory.
We risk a conflagration unless we attend to causes related to human and social degradation.
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