JONATHAN JANSEN | Red flag: SA is ripe for capture by right-wing authoritarianism
If Monday’s triumphant parties do not show good faith and citizens do not pay attention, democracy will be history
03 November 2021 - 20:02
The potholes that were there on Sunday were still there on Tuesday. South Africans are not stupid. It took six local government elections since the end of apartheid to drive home a simple point — that you can vote till you’re blue in the face and it will make absolutely no difference to your material existence, especially if, like many of your fellow citizens, you are struggling to survive from one day to the next...
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