KHAYA SITHOLE: If only voters had a way to assess claims and promises of politicians
Many parties will get away with selling impractical ideas that will simply never see the light of day
07 March 2024 - 05:00
In a few weeks’ time, parliament will rise and the focus will shift squarely to campaign season, where politicians will seek to convince voters that their commitment to fixing the country is worth backing at the ballot box.
The issues that affect citizens with a sense of acute proximity and high impact will be energy, employment and the social wage. Their acute proximity stems from everyone being affected by the curse of load-shedding, and wherever they find themselves on the social spectrum its persistence is at a minimum an annoying inconvenience and at worst a significant daily impediment to life...
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