Okay. I would like this discussed and opinions thrown about a bit.
I attend a 2nd year lecture for Project Management at CTI. Last week he spoke about the elections that have just past. Every week he ends up talking about a form of politics or about government in some sort of way. He certainly has a lot of opinion that gets drawn from stories he reads from a large variety of sources.
Anyways..
He was dead certain that the 1994 elections were not free and fair by any measure. In the "white voters" favor however.
He mentioned the constitutional requirement (back then) of 20% for a party in order for a deputy president to be elected from that party.
He mentioned votes were given from the ANC to the NP etc to bring them to the 20% and also to make sure they themselves (ANC) do not get the 2/3rd majority in 1994.
He says irrespective of this it was smart because it kept everyone happy so to speak and prevented a civil war from breaking out within the country.
He continues to speak that from here on the ANC will just get stronger and the DA will simply get weaker. He says this on the grounds of the DA not getting black voters. He says it is unfortunate but everyone does in face vote on the colours of their own skin. The DA has reached a voter saturation point, ANC will continue to get votes because they have voted for a president that in Europe will not even be eligible to run for a town hall representative.
Anyways... All the above was his views.
I am more focusing on the fact that he speaks of 1994s results being not free and fair and swung slightly in favour of other parties to prevent an unstable outbreak.
I would like to prove him wrong or at least give him a good reason as to why what happened other than the current rather depressing and disappointed approach he has to the current landscape of politics since the first free "democratic" elections as he says.. not believing it was truly democratic.
I attend a 2nd year lecture for Project Management at CTI. Last week he spoke about the elections that have just past. Every week he ends up talking about a form of politics or about government in some sort of way. He certainly has a lot of opinion that gets drawn from stories he reads from a large variety of sources.
Anyways..
He was dead certain that the 1994 elections were not free and fair by any measure. In the "white voters" favor however.
He mentioned the constitutional requirement (back then) of 20% for a party in order for a deputy president to be elected from that party.
He mentioned votes were given from the ANC to the NP etc to bring them to the 20% and also to make sure they themselves (ANC) do not get the 2/3rd majority in 1994.
He says irrespective of this it was smart because it kept everyone happy so to speak and prevented a civil war from breaking out within the country.
He continues to speak that from here on the ANC will just get stronger and the DA will simply get weaker. He says this on the grounds of the DA not getting black voters. He says it is unfortunate but everyone does in face vote on the colours of their own skin. The DA has reached a voter saturation point, ANC will continue to get votes because they have voted for a president that in Europe will not even be eligible to run for a town hall representative.
Anyways... All the above was his views.
I am more focusing on the fact that he speaks of 1994s results being not free and fair and swung slightly in favour of other parties to prevent an unstable outbreak.
I would like to prove him wrong or at least give him a good reason as to why what happened other than the current rather depressing and disappointed approach he has to the current landscape of politics since the first free "democratic" elections as he says.. not believing it was truly democratic.
