SA’s most important truths are captured with such unassuming understatement in the first line of Business Day’s pre-election editorial last week (“Vote with compassion for fellow South Africans (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/editorials/2024-05-28-editorial-vote-with-compassion-for-fellow-south-africans/)”, May 28) that it seems essential to commend them to post-election attention.

That line reads: “When you wait to vote on Wednesday, if you look around you will be reminded that SA looks a lot more like the queue at the department of home affairs than it does the queue for a flight.”..

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