POLITICS has gone from free and fair general elections to Third-World, racially divisive “Rwanda genocide style” name-calling. Name-calling and insults have been the order of the day– and that only a few days after the inauguration of a democratically elected president and the announcement of an inclusive cabinet.
Respected public figures have degraded themselves by claiming that “they have it on good authority that Western Cape Premier Helen Zille is sleeping with members of her cabinet and using them as her concubines”. This came after Zille’s disrespectful and scathing attack on President Jacob Zuma, who she described as “a self-confessed womaniser, who put all his wives at risk by having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman”.
I find it disturbing that the ANC and the DA refer to each other as enemies. It is also disturbing that the ANC Youth League wants to use “militant action” to bring about change. Are we not a free and democratic society? In these dark times of economic meltdowns, job losses and escalating poverty, South Africans should be working together, not against each other.
Ayanda Mdluli
Hatfield, Pretoria
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