If you are able to, please go and vote on May 29. Your country needs you. Why? Take a walk, or drive around. Talk to people. You will realise why.

I did this a few weeks after President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his optimistic state of the nation address on February 8. My trip reminded me of how many great empires and political experiments fell: first in little bits and bobs, then in a deluge. There are many bits and bobs we need to fix urgently or else the deluge will hit us. The fixing starts with voting on May 29...

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