The SA Politics Thread Part 6

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TheChamp said:
Talking about qualifications, MEC Winde has not retained the former MEC of health in the Western Cape who had qualifications and experience in the health industry, he replaced her with someone who has no background in Health and no qualifications related to health, so does qualifications really matter or is it just something that's brought up when it's convenient?
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Good question and as you and Toixbunny had pointed out is all political I asked him anyway via a Tweet.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
On the contrary, this election has proven me wrong that it is kind of working. It just needs a bit of tweaking.

This will just further erode confidence in the EFF and drop their support even more.

If we directly elected a president, we could be sitting with a populist despot and this conversation would be completely different...
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My view is far more black-pilled. In 4 years' time, we can revisit this topic and I will happily eat my words if I am wrong.

The last 30 years have been a natural reversion of South Africa to its natural baseline, which is where the rest of Africa is. What we are seeing is a small sliver of good news, all due to voter apathy which resulted in low turnout.
 
I believe my very first vote ever was for the UDM. Sad to see them vote with the EFF, then again my politics has changed a lot.
 
TheChamp said:
I agree with everything you say except the part about qualifications not being important, a combination of qualifications and everything you have mentioned is a good mix for someone in an oversight role.
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You are still making the mistake of equating qualifications to experience and/or knowledge. It’s a terrible assumption to make.
 
Emjay said:
My view is far more black-pilled. In 4 years' time, we can revisit this topic and I will happily eat my words if I am wrong.

The last 30 years have been a natural reversion of South Africa to its natural baseline, which is where the rest of Africa is. What we are seeing is a small sliver of good news, all due to voter apathy which resulted in low turnout.
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It's not that living standards were really better back then.

Maybe for a few.
 
Garson007 said:
I believe my very first vote ever was for the UDM. Sad to see them vote with the EFF, then again my politics has changed a lot.
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A good question for many people who voted in 1994. Who did you first vote for? Be honest.

You all weren't DA fanboys then (DA scored almost 70% in recent MyBB polls) but the DP scored like 2% in the first election .
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1801853801713783093

Fortunately, there is some good news for an embattled nation. The fragile prospects of the GNU have received a boost from an unexpected quarter — that of Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema. The recent unforced errors and miscalculations of this toxic pair will afford the GNU some of the much-needed time it needs to get off the ground.
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But the Tortoise of Nkandla dozed off. Instead of pressing home the blitzkrieg, he withdrew to Stalingrad. Displaying a woeful lack of understanding of the Constitution under which he served for nine years, as well as worrying levels of paranoid delusion, Zuma made a series of blunders.

First, he demanded that the Electoral Commission (IEC) not announce the final results — the action that triggers the two-week window for negotiations between the parties of the composition of the next government — and that the “rigged” election which had deprived MK of a two-thirds majority be rerun. Second, he announced that MK would also not take up its 58 seats in the new National Assembly, an act that would supposedly invalidate the first sitting of the new Parliament.

Unsurprisingly, the Constitutional Court this week ruled against Zuma in both matters. Bigger than the legal defeat was the loss of momentum. Had MK and the EFF, working together, agreed to negotiate participation in the GNU, they would still be at the table and holding strong hands over a long game.
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Instead, through ill-advised legal actions and making Ramaphosa’s exit a prerequisite to negotiations, they effectively dealt themselves out of the game. The absence of these two populist, racist and bellicose players is the best news yet for the survival of the GNU and, ultimately, democracy in South Africa.
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