Many question if their vote will indeed count

MILLIONS of South Africans head to the polls this week for the fifth national general elections. And while some people will tell you that they are definitely going to vote (to make a change), there are many who say that they “couldn’t be bothered”. “What difference will it make? There is so much corruption going on.”

This despite the fervent efforts of the IEC and political parties to ensure that people come out to vote on Wednesday. For many, much has changed since the advent of democracy, some 20 years ago, but for many its the same humdrum. Thousands still live in shacks, have no running water, no toilet facilities and their children still walk for several kilometers to get to school. That’s for the vast majority of South Africans.

Read Shiraz Habbib’s article in this week’s edition of the Northglen News where he talks to three men who have lived the vast majority of their lives in a four-walled shack. This, as we head to the polls.

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“No one’s dream is to live in a shack,” says shack dweller