LETTER: No-one expects electoral reform to be a silver bullet
Change is needed to get apathetic South Africans invested in the political process again
Jonny Steinberg (“Constituency voting could spawn even uglier politics (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2021-06-03-jonny-steinberg-constituency-voting-could-spawn-even-uglier-politics/)”, June 3) raised a number of concerns about electoral reform, cautioning it is not likely to be a silver bullet.
This is true, but no-one lobbying for at least some form of constituency representation is claiming that it will be. South Africans are increasingly checking out of the electoral process (2019 featured the lowest voter turnout in a postapartheid election, and 20-million people who were eligible to vote chose to not do so)...
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