semiautomatix
Honorary Master
I will. I voted for the ANC in the first election, because I believed it was the best thing for the country. I dont regret it. They achieved a lot, initially. We had a really good economy. Human rights increased. Subsequently, however, they have failed. Badly. They have failed to deliver services to people who need it. They have failed to unite the country around nation building. You can understand the need to focus on previous disadvantaged communities and I even accepted that AA and BEE where needed. However, all AA and BEE has achieved, is non-white foreigners getting lucrative contracts and dodgy arms deals. Poor communities still suffer from lack of services. The response of the ANC to all of this has been to drive a wedge between South Africans along racial lines. This is exactly how the NATS played the country to reinforce their apartheid idealogy. Make sure that white's and blacks blame each other.
I havent voted in elections since, because the ANC have not delivered and the other parties where retards. I left SA 2 years ago and wont vote again because I have no plans on returning. In the UK election, I voted Lib Dems for the council and Labour for national elections. Not sure how I will vote this time.
Right, don't think you're part of the solution then. But I guess it's moot now, so c'est la vie. Hope you weren't planning on coming here for the World Cup or a holiday either mind you. Hope you didn't leave any relatives or friends behind, because they could lose there lives. But each for his own, eh. And who said philanthropy was dead?