#Elections2024: ‘There is still hope for South Africa’

Brendon Naicker, a former South Coaster living in the United Kingdom, says he believes there is still hope for South Africa as the country heads to the polls on May 29.

Naicker said he was excited and looking forward to exercising his right, saying that he would be returning to vote at his polling station in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg.

Originally from Oslo Beach, Naicker travels to South Africa every six weeks and has been doing so for the past seven years.

Speaking to Fever, he said despite the challenges, he believed there is always hope for South Africa. He said elections present an opportunity for change and progress.

“It is up to the people to use their voices and vote to steer the nation toward a brighter future,” he said.
He added that he longs to see tangible improvements in education, healthcare, as well as economic opportunities for all citizens.

Naicker said he also hoped for greater unity, inclusivity and transparency in governance.

“We hope for a society where every individual feels valued and empowered to thrive. Through trials endured, apartheid’s chains unbound, a rainbow nation emerges, bound by unity profound. With each challenge faced, a lesson learned, with faith in God’s guiding hand, our destiny discerned. So, let us write, with words that inspire, for in unity and hope, South Africa’s future shall aspire. I have faith to believe that our beautiful nation will arise from now its humility,” he said.

Meanwhile, On May 29, South Africans will elect a new National Assembly, as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces.

This will be the seventh general election since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.

The new National Council of Provinces (NCOP) will be elected at the first sitting of each provincial legislature.
Since the inaugural post-apartheid election in 1994, the ANC has continuously achieved a majority in both chambers of the South African Parliament: the National Assembly (lower house) and the National Council of Provinces (upper house).

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