I’ve been harping on the ‘Is South going downhill’ story for a while now. I think it is the combination of a number of events like the elections that are getting me to question whether we are actually moving forward or backward here.

I was driving back from Sun City over the weekend (yes I saw Roxette, no I was not sober enough to remember) and I came across a group of about 30 people doing a mini VOTE ANC rally. Now vote for whoever you want, that is a right everyone this country has earned through blood, sweat and tears. The point I want to make is that this make shift rally was taking place outside a squatter camp where I assume these people live.
Now if I’ve voted for a party, any party for nearly 20 years and I still live in a shack with no power or running water SURELY it’s time to re-evaluate who I support?
The reason I bring this up is I’ve had a number of debates with various people on why the masses still vote ANC after nearly 20 years of poor delivery. Now I know that 95% of the population never read George Orwell’s Animal Farm but STILL people, does no one get what’s going on here??

To play devil’s advocate my view is that the ANC just get far more game time than anyone else.

Julius certainly dominates most radio news broadcasts that I hear and every time I watch any sort of news related channel I get JZ shifting around singing ‘Umshini wam . . ‘

and finally this week the SABC broadcast an ANC rally from FNB stadium while it chose not to broadcast any other parties rallies – talk about elections being ‘free and fair’
Now if I were in the conspiracy theory mood I would start saying that like all dictatorships they started by gaining control of the media, I don’t think we are quite there yet after watching that short Indian chick on Carte Blanche whine about something again last night. I also don’t think the ANC in general are smart enough but I am a little worried that the smaller parties cannot seriously challenge the ANC because they just don’t get enough exposure (well that and the fact that Helen Zilles Charlie’s Angels vibe doesn’t appeal to me)

I guess what I’m trying to say is that election days scare me because they are the one day that all corruption and deceit can possibly escape and destroy democracy as we have seen so many times through the ages all over the world and I’m nervous that it may happen in time to come here.
If you are registered GET OUT AND VOTE – I’m not going to tell you who to vote for but VOTE so many people in so many countries have lost lives for the right and so we should respect it!
If you are not registered you are a degenerate moron and you can never say anything positive or negative about this country because you didn’t have a part in influencing it, so shut and go back to your cave!