To Vote, or not to Vote

The time has come. Well actually its tomorrow.

The day for all South Africans to go out and vote for the party they think will sort this mess of a country out.

Its been about 17 years or so since democracy in SA, when the National Party were thrown out, the TRC was created and the ANC took power. Its taken about 17 years to completely bring this country to its knees. Over 70 municipalities are in hot water over failed service delivery, corrupt officials, tenderpreneurs and vastly diminishing community funds, destined for the people, but finds its way into money grabbing self enriching politicians pockets.

Newspapers and online articles are abundant when it comes to ANC failures through corrupt activities. All you need to do is a brief search on Google and you will be flooded with info from the Travel Gate saga, to the Arms deal, various illegal tenders being awarded, and just the pure lack of service and complete degradation of municipalities to a point where National Government needs to step in to fix the problems caused by the very same people they put in position to deal with these issues. Instead of dealing with the problems though, they would rather furnish their own homes, and buy expensive trips oversees to visit incarcerated lovers. Did I mention the Minister of State Securities wife was just arrested and sentenced to 12 years behind bars because of drugs smuggling? How can the Minister of Security actually do his job and protect the country, when his wife is smuggling drugs under his nose? Hes either incredibly naive and blind to have missed this, in which case hes not fit to do his job, or hes an accomplice to her crimes, in which case he needs to be locked up as well. Regardless the ANC have done nothing to address that issue. His wife is still apparently doing her job as Minister of Health – yet shes smuggling drugs. Everywhere you look, there is hypocracy, lies, false promises and criminal activity. If you take into account that only about 7% of the South African populous actually pays tax, the rest goes to social grants for the unemployed, pockets of politicians and who knows what else. We definitely arent seeing this money in infrastructure, road repairs and general technology in the country. So where is it all going?

We have politicians driving the fanciest of cars, living in the fanciest of houses, the same politicians who claimed they worked for the people, but instead of enriching the townships with services and funding, they enrich their personal lives first. The typical example of previous have nots moving into a position of wealth and power which wasnt earned, but rather given. The lure of luxary living is too good for many these types of people.

Now all of this said – how can we have a well run country looking good going into the future when all we see is corruption and lack of service.

The only way out of this mess is to stand up and make your vote count.

I have spoken to a few people of late, questioning whether they will vote or not tomorrow, and many have blankly said, No. They either arent interested, or they claim there isnt a party they would rather support, or some silly excuse to rather spend the public holiday given to us purely so we could vote, in a chair sipping bear, smiling at the thought of running water, electricity and a safe neighbourhood. On the other side of the coin, the ANC has lost many supporters through lack of delivery. These supports are too proud to vote for the DA and will instead rather not vote. This in my opinion is key to a stronger opposition. The more support the ANC loses, the bigger majority the DA gets, regardless if those people vote or not. But its not these people Im concerned about, its the people aforementioned sipping bear smiling at the thought of having working services.

All it takes is for enough of these people to sit back and do nothing, to let the ANC roll in, claim majority and run that municipality into the ground as well. Then these non-voters will want to stand up and actually do something about it, but by then it very well may be too late.

The DA has proven itself to be the most effective party in this country, making sure the Western Cape which they control, is in top shape, in any aspect of service delivery.

So stand up and go VOTE!!! If you think your vote wont count, you are very mistaken, its is extremely important. If you do not vote, please keep all opinions about the state of this country to yourselves, you actually do not have a say or opinion on the matter as you refused to get involved to help make a difference.

Ill leave you with this quote which is quite accurate:

“South Africa is the only country in the world where affirmative action is in the favor of the MAJORITY, who has complete political control.

The fact that the political majority requires affirmative action to protect them against a 9% minority group is testament to a complete failure on their part to build their own wealth making structures

Therefore their only solution is to take it from others.”

GO VOTE!!!!