When will voters open their eyes to see the delusion, asks the writer. Can we, for a moment, imagine a different election? One where politicians are not allowed to sing and dance.
Where they are not allowed to drive their fancy cars to campaign stations and polling booths. Or have any form of security or protection. They are not allowed to jump the queue to vote; they must stand in line like everyone else.
Or an election where they must all be the last to vote. Every election speech must be published and handed to the audience before they take to the podium. They must have budgets and data available to support their claims.
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In every room where they campaign and deliver speeches, there will be independent fact-checkers to immediately review and correct any statement they make that is not supported by legislation, budgets, or data. When will voters open their eyes to see the delusion? They don’t represent any community or constituency.
Watching the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate Allegations made by Lieutenant General Mkhwanazi, we have hours of footage of our politicians at their most intimate moments with our country’s future. The results are not pretty to watch. These Commissions are a window into the often pathetic, near-comedic performances by the person being questioned and a political class that lacks the intelligence to address this incompetence and put a stop to it.
We have a crumbling criminal justice system. Yet those members we saw on television for hours on end are the ones who are supposed to be fixing it. The TRC, the Zondo Commission, the Marikana Commission, and the Life Esidimeni Inquest are among the many that were intended to help clean up our justice processes.
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