Election time has come and gone once again. Millions of citizens with hearts filled with excitement and hope for change brace themselves for the familiar feeling of disappointment.
The ANC is on top again, but why is it bad?
From a general perspective Zuma’s reign was destructive for this country. Another term with him or someone of similar calibre in the presidential seat might destroy our beloved South Africa.
Working in the media sector and learning about every skeleton in the ANC leadership’s closet as it leaks, you hope that if you pass on the message people might open their eyes and learn how to differentiate between truth and lie. But alas, comfort supersedes common sense.
In no way do I suggest that the DA should take over the country, but change is essential. One only could have hoped for more influence by the smorgasbord of opposition parties; even Malema and his reach-for-financial-freedom revolution.
This country needs leaders – people who will keep our schoolboy prefect from doing naughty things such as robbing state coffers of our hard-earned tax monies and raping the justice system only to wash away the consequences with a swift shower of consciencelessness. How about a leadership made up of representatives from all major political parties where one person’s say remains just that until there is consensus?
During the build-up to the 2014 elections it was clear that this might be the election of change, one that carries the impact and importance of the 1994 elections.
Watching the results trickle in however, one is reminded that even though change is as good as a holiday, for some it is just painstakingly impossible – particularly those too afraid to be classified a traitor or who fear the return of apartheid if they vote for any other party; the ignorant and IQ-robbed folk who decide not to vote owing to their hate of standing in queues or their vacuous argument that their vote won’t change a thing; those who carry so much hate in their hearts that they rather opt for some right-wing movement than to settle the score on election day.
This is just half of the reasons why this country is stuck in reverse gear. The other half consists of corrupt party agents and IEC officials, ill motives during election campaigns et cetera.
What’s done is done – nothing spoken or written can change that.
ANC, I would have hoped for more equally distributed power across the country and less power to you, but that dream is up in smoke.
The only thing that we as citizens can hope for is that you get rid of your dense power abusers and send the good within the party to the front line. My wish is that you start regarding your country and its citizens’ needs more important than your own. Start serving your country.
If that doesn’t happen I hope that you truly mess up so much in the next term that you destroy yourself from within and leave it to the people to pick up the pieces in the next election.
As for those who were too afraid to adopt change and even the somebodies who decided that voting is just not for you: wake up to reality. Realise that having competent people on branch and municipal level is not going to change anything on national level.
This is not Madiba’s ANC anymore.
