The Big Read: The ancestors are weeping

And so, this week, we come to the end of the most unimaginative, unoriginal, unedifying and tired election campaign since 1994. Politicians are notorious for taking voters for fools and promising heaven and earth in the run-up to elections. This, however, was a campaign that distinguished itself by the cynical manner in which some of our so-called leaders scraped the bottom of the barrel and delivered stale, simplistic, divisive and moronic answers to the cries of our people.