Sir – Well, yes, now that the election is over and done, and the big hoo-ha has died down, all kinds of questions are starting to show their nasty little heads as they crawl out of the woodwork (or shall I call that cartoon network?)
The DA for sure, and the ANC both received a snotklap of note from their voters, even with all the grumbling about wasted and spoiled ballots. Will this exercise now lead to cleaner governance? Lord knows, people have had enough of fat cats taking ill-gotten gains home.
Service delivery? The votes were not even fully counted yet when the first service delivery protests hit the news. Social media abounds with grumbling ANC supporters, and the DA now says the Freedom Front stole their voters. Yeah, Musi, what did you expect after some of your electioneering speeches?
Will the government cross the Rubicon now? Are we going to see real reform, or is this just another of those elections where the majority of the population will wait for the next one in their mud huts with their new t-shirts? Will we see a streamlined cabinet, or are we going to continue with the Zumaesque waddle ‘South Africa has a good story to tell’?
Time will certainly tell, and in the meantime I am going to put my fresh new T-shirt away with the other five. Maybe in the next election, some politician will deign to tell me why I should vote for him or her, because up to now, it has been nonsense. Get off of your fat behinds and actually do something we can talk about in this term – and smile.
The Ardent Voter
