The vitriol of weeks past that accompanied the #ZumaMustFall movement amounted to nothing more than a few hundred people heading to gathering points in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town calling for President Jacob Zuma to step down.Where were the armchair activists? The blogger analysts? The middle class who felt so let down by President Jacob Zuma's Friday night "apology"?Their voices were loud on Twitter and Facebook in days gone by. The memes were quick and full of wit, but when it came down to it the Freedom Day braai was more alluring than spending the day campaigning for Zuma's removal.It's no wonder the ANC appears confident enough to head to the local government polls with Zuma at the helm.It's the same apathy that allows Zuma to say, without a sense of irony, at yesterday's main Freedom Day commemoration event in Giyani, Limpopo, that elected councillors who had fallen out of favour with the people should accept that their time was over."If you were elected as a councillor and people no longer want you, humble yourself and just accept defeat. The will of the majority will always prevail."Those elected must get it clear that they are there for the people and not for themselves," Zuma said.Neither Zuma nor the ANC believes that the people no longer want Zuma to lead them.They have no reason to believe it.Yesterday's poor turnout at the People's Assembly march calling for Zuma to resign didn't give them cause for concern.If anything, it probably confirmed the status quo. If #ZumaMustFall is the basis for the opposition parties' election campaigns, a rethink is needed ... it's clearly not enough to galvanise the masses into action...