MAKHUDU SEFARA | SA’s local elections: when spoilt for choice equates to slim pickings

Voters face the dilemma of choosing between the DA’s racism and the ANC’s corruption in municipal polls on November 1

07 October 2021 - 19:24

Theoretically, South Africans are spoilt for choice in the upcoming local government elections. In truth, though, the battle seems to be between the same parties that have always governed, the same parties that have always failed us and the same parties that will not do any better in the next five years...

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