LETTER: I’m spoiling my vote
Who can have faith in a system that will re-elect the same bunch of crooks who wrecked it?
If the Desperate Alternative has rolled out its current bête noire, Helen Zille and Tony Leon, realisation must have finally dawned that a goodly percentage of its leafy suburb support has either left the country, is packing or has refused to legitimate the farcical upcoming election by voting at all. While its vaunted record of governing the Western Cape has been tarnished by the De Lille debacle, Day Zero and the recent doubling of ratable house values, the real elephant in the room is that the country has lost faith in its constitution. For who can seriously have faith in a system that will re-elect the same bunch of crooks who wrecked it in the first place? If morale is rock bottom in the leafy suburbs, how broken must it be in the townships? Never have the poor been promised so much and received so little. There, a “better life for all” has become a cruel joke, unless of course you are one of the “elected”. Little consolation can be taken from the fact that democracy in its wi...
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